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City  Ordinances 

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Revised  and  Passed  March  15 , 1900 f 

TOGETHER  WITH  THE 

City  Charter, 

RULES  OF  ORDER  OF  THE  CITY  COUNCILS, 

AND 

LIST  OF  CITY  OFFICIALS 

FROM  1874  TO  1900. 


KEENE,  N.  H. 

SENTINEL  PRINTING  COMPANY,  PRINTERS. 

1900. 


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CITY  OF  KEENE 


City  Ordinances 

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UNIVERSITY  OF  ILLINOIS  LI 

Revised  and  Passed  March  15,  1900, 

TOGETHER  WITH  THE 

City  Charter, 

RULES  OF  ORDER  OF  THE  CITY  COUNCILS, 

AND 

LIST  OF  CITY  OFFICIALS 

FROM  1874  TO  1900. 


KEENE,  N.  H. 

SENTINEL  PRINTING  COMPANY,  PRINTERS. 

1900. 

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CITY  CHARTER 


WITH  AMENDMENTS  THERETO. 


AN  ACT  TO  ESTABLISH  THE  CITY  OF  KEENE. 


Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives 
in  General  Court  convened: 

Section  1.  The  inhabitants  of  the  town  of  Keene  in  the 
county  of  Cheshire  shall  continue  to  be  a body  corporate 
and  politic,  under  the  name  of  the  city  of  Keene. 

Sect.  2.  The  said  city  of  Keene  hereby  is  divided  into 
five  wards,  which  shall  be  constituted  as  follows,  namely : 
Ward  No.  1 shall  include  all  that  part  of  the  town  of 
Keene  now  included  within  the  following  limits,  viz: 
bounded  northerly  by  a line  drawn  easterly  from  Central 
square,  through  the  center  of  Roxbury  street  and  the  center 
of  the  highway  leading  by  the  dwelling  houses  of  Miles  S. 
Buckminster  and  John  W.  Nye,  to  Roxbury;  easterly  by 
the  town  lines  between  said  Keene,  Marlboro’  and  Swanzey ; 
and  westerly  by  a line  drawn  southerly  from  said  Central 
square  through  the  center  of  Main  street  and  the  road 
leading  to  Swanzey  Factory  Village. 

Ward  No.  2 shall  include  all  that  part  of  said  Keene 
included  within  the  following  limits,  viz : bounded  north- 
erly by  the  town  lines  between  said  Keene  and  Gilsum; 
easterly  by  the  town  lines  between  said  Keene,  Sullivan  and 
Roxbury ; southerly  by  the  northern  limit  above  described 
of  Ward  No.  1 ; and  westerly  by  a line  intersecting  with 
said  last  mentioned  line,  and  drawn  thence  northerly 


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through  said  Central  square,  the  center  of  Washington 
street,  and  the  road  leading  by  the  dwelling  house  of  E.  G. 
Holman,  to  Gilsum. 

Ward  No.  3 shall  include  all  that  part  of  said  Keene  in- 
cluded within  the  following  limits,  viz:  bounded  northerly 
by  the  town  lines  between  said  Keene,  Gilsum  and  Surry; 
easterly  by  the  west  line  above  described  of  Ward  No.  2 ; 
and  westerly  by  a line  drawn  northwesterly  through  said 
Central  square,  the  center  of  Court  street,  and  the  center 
of  the  old  road  leading  by  the  dwelling  houses  of  Charles 
Wright  and  Calvin  Randall,  to  said  Surry. 

Ward  No.  4 shall  include  all  that  part  of  said  Keene  in- 
cluded within  the  following  limits,  viz:  bounded  northerly 
by  the  town  lines  between  said  Keene,  Surry  and  Westmore- 
land; easterly  by  the  west  line  above  described  of  Ward 
No.  3 ; southerly  by  a line  intersecting  with  said  last  men- 
tioned line,  and  drawn  thence  westerly  through  Central 
square,  the  center  of  West  street,  and  the  center  of  highway 
leading  from  said  West  street  by  the  dwelling  houses  of 
Charles  N.  Wilder,  Josiah  Sawyer,  Joseph  Wilson,  Daniel 
Brown  and  Isaiah  Robbins,  to  Chesterfield;  and  westerly  by 
the  town  lines  between  said  Keene,  Westmoreland  and 
Chesterfield. 

Ward  No.  5 shall  include  all  that  part  of  said  Keene  in- 
cluded within  the  following  limits,  viz:  bounded  northerly 
by  the  south  line  above  described  of  Ward  No.  4;  easterly 
by  the  west  line  above  described  of  Ward  No.  1;  southerly 
by  the  town  lines  between  said  Keene  and  Chesterfield  and 
Swanzey. 

Sect.  3.  At  the  first  meeting  after  the  adoption  of  this 
act,  there  shall  be  chosen  in  each  of  said  wards,  in  the  man- 
ner prescribed  by  law,  one  alderman,  three  common  coun- 
cilmen,  one  assessor  of  taxes,  and  one  overseer  of  the  poor. 

Sect.  4.  The  annual  meeting  of  the  legal  voters  of  said 
city  of  Keene,  for  the  choice  of  city  and  ward  officers,  shall 
be  held  on  the  second  Tuesday  of  December  annually ; and 
all  city  and  ward  officers  who  are  chosen  by  the  people  shall 
hold  their  respective  offices  for  one  year  from  the  first  Tues- 


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day  of  January  next  succeeding,  and  until  others  are  chosen 
and  qualified  in  their  stead. 

Sect.  5.  The  mayor,  aldermen  and  common  council- 
men  shall  meet  in  convention  for  the  purpose  of  taking  the 
oath  of  their  respective  offices  on  the  first  Tuesday  of  Janu- 
ary in  each  year,  at  ten  o’clock  in  the  forenoon. 

Se£t.  6.  A police  court  is  hereby  established  within 
said  city  of  Keene,  constituted  in  the  manner  prescribed  in 
section  2,  chapter  196  of  the  General  Statutes  of  this  state, 
with  all  the  powers  and  made  subject  to  all  the  duties  pre- 
scribed for  police  courts  in  and  by  said  chapter. 

Sect.  7.  All  the  power  and  authority  now  vested  by 
law  in  said  town  of  Keene  in  regard  to  the  construction, 
maintenance  and  management  of  water  works,  is  hereby 
transferred  to  and  vested  in  the  city  council,  and  shall  be 
carried  into  execution  by  the  appointment  of  a superin- 
tendent or  board  of  water  commissioners,  or  such  other 
manner  as  said  city  council  shall  determine. 

Sect.  8.  Within  fifteen  days  after  the  acceptance  of  this 
act  by  the  legal  voters  of  the  town  of  Keene,  in  the  manner 
hereinafter  prescribed,  the  selectmen  of  said  town,  for  the 
purpose  of  the  first  election  under  this  charter,  shall  prepare, 
revise,  correct  and  post  up,  in  the  manner  in  which  select- 
men of  towns  are  now  required  to  do,  an  alphabetical  list 
of  voters  in  each  ward  of  the  city,  and  shall  issue  and  serve 
their  warrant  for  a meeting  of  the  legal  voters  in  their  re- 
spective wards  for  the  choice  of  all  city  officers  who  are 
elected  by  the  people.  Such  warrant  shall  be  posted  at  least 
fourteen  days  before  the  time  appointed  for  said  meetings, 
and  shall  designate  the  time  and  place  for  the  meetings  in 
the  respective  wards.  At  said  meeting,  each  of  said  wards 
shall  choose  a moderator,  clerk,  three  selectmen,  one  aider- 
man,  three  members  of  the  common  council,  one  assessor, 
and  one  overseer  of  the  poor,  and  shall  also  give  in  their 
votes  for  a mayor  and  such  other  officers  as  are  then  to 
be  voted  for.  The  clerk  of  each  ward  shall  deliver  certifi- 
cates of  their  election  to  the  persons  elected  aldermen  and 
members  of  the  common  council,  and  a copy  of  the  record 


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of  election  to  said  selectmen  of  the  town,  certified  by  him- 
self, the  moderator,  and  a majority  of  the  selectmen  of  said 
ward,  within  twenty-four  hours  after  the  termination  of 
said  ward  meeting.  The  selectmen  shall,  within  two  days 
after  receiving  said  returns,  examine,  compare  and  record 
the  same,  ascertain  the  result  of  the  election,  and  give 
notice  in  writing  to  the  person  chosen  mayor  of  his  election. 
If  a mayor  shall  not  have  been  elected  at  such  meeting, 
the  selectmen  shall  forthwith  issue  their  warrant  for  another 
meeting,  as  provided  in  this  section,  and  the  same  proceed- 
ings shall  be  had  and  repeated  until  a mayor  shall  be 
chosen.  Any  legal  voter  in  the  respective  wards  may  call 
the  first  meeting  to  order,  and  preside  until  a moderator 
shall  be  chosen. 

Sect.  9.  This  act  shall  be  void,  unless  a majority  of  the 
legal  voters  of  said  town  of  Keene  shall,  by  a majority  of 
the  voters  present  and  voting  thereon  by  ballot,  determine 
to  adopt  the  same  at  an  annual  meeting  of  the  voters  of 
said  town. 

Sect.  10.  The  selectmen  shall  issue  and  serve  their 
warrant  as  prescribed  by  law  at  least  fourteen  days  before 
said  meeting  to  the  legal  voters  of  said  town,  to  see  if  they 
will  adopt  this  charter  for  a city  government — said  votes 
to  be  taken  by  ballot. 

Sect.  11.  The  first  meeting  of  the  legal  voters  of  said 
Keene  for  the  choice  of  city  and  ward  officers  shall  be 
held  on  the  second  Tuesday  of  April  following  the  adoption 
of  this  act.  The  mayor,  aldermen  and  common  councilmen 
then  elected  shall  meet  in  convention  for  the  purpose  of 
taking  the  oath  of  their  respective  offices  on  the  first  Tues- 
day of  May  next  succeeding.  All  the  city  and  ward  officers 
elected  by  the  people  in  April  shall  hold  their  respective 
offices  until  others  are  chosen  and  qualified  in  their  stead. 

[Approved  July  3,  1873.] 


CITY  CHARTER. 


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AN  ACT  IN  AMENDMENT  OF  THE  CHARTER  OF 
THE  CITY  OF  KEENE. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives 

in  General  Court  convened: 

Section  1.  There  shall  be  elected  in  each  ward,  on  the 
first  Tuesday  after  the  first  Monday  in  November  next,  by 
major  vote,  and  at  each  biennial  state  election  thereafter,  one 
supervisor  of  check-lists,  and  the  supervisors  thus  elected 
shall  constitute  a joint  board  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to 
canvass  each  ward,  at  least  twenty  days  preceding  the 
posting  of  the  check-lists,  as  now  prescribed  by  law,  to  ob- 
tain as  near  as  possible  a list  of  the  legal  voters,  from 
which  they  shall  make  up  an  alphabetical  list  of  all  the  legal 
voters  of  each  ward.  Certified  copies  of  said  lists  shall  be 
given  into  the  hands  of  the  selectmen  of  the  several  wards 
seventeen  days  previous  to  every  election,  which  copies 
shall  be  posted  by  the  selectmen  as  now  required  by 
law. 

Sect.  2.  Said  supervisors  shall  publish  in  the  news- 
papers of  the  city,  at  least  fifteen  days  previous  to  every  elec- 
tion, a notice  of  the  time  and  place  of  meeting  for  the  cor- 
rection of  said  check-lists,  and  also  give  notice  of  the  same 
on  the  aforesaid  copies  in  the  same  manner  as  now  provided 
by  law  for  selectmen,  which  meetings  shall  be:  the  first,  not 
less  than  five  days  previous  to  election  (exclusive  of  Sunday), 
and  the  last  meeting  on  the  day  preceding  every  election 
from  the  hours  of  two  p.  m.  to  six  p.  m.,  and  from  seven 
p.  m.  to  ten  p.  m.  on  each  of  said  days,  and  no  name  shall 
be  added  to  said  check-lists  after  the  last  meeting,  except 
such  name  as  may  have  been  left  off  through  mistake ; and 
not  then  unless  the  supervisor  in  attendance,  in  any  ward 
where  such  omission  occurs,  shall  have  positive  knowledge 
or  information  that  said  person  has  been  a resident  of  the 
city  for  the  period  of  one  year,  and  in  the  ward  six 
months. 

Sect.  3.  The  several  check-lists,  as  finally  corrected  by 
the  supervisors,  shall  be  returned  to  the  selectmen  of  their 


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respective  wards  before  the  hour  of  meeting,  and  shall  be 
used  in  voting  at  every  election ; and  the  clerk  of  each  ward 
shall,  within  ten  days  after  every  election,  leave  said  lists 
with  the  city  clerk  to  be  preserved. 

Sect.  4.  Said  supervisors  shall  meet  and  organize  by 
electing  one  of  the  board  as  chairman,  said  chairman  select- 
ing, with  advice  and  consent  of  the  other  members,  one  of 
their  number  to  serve  in  each  ward  at  all  elections,  said 
supervisor  to  serve  in  another  ward  than  the  one  in  which 
he  was  elected,  or  is  a voter,  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to 
decide  all  contested  cases  which  may  arise  by  reason  of 
omission  as  herein  before  mentioned. 

Sect.  5.  Said  supervisors  shall  be  commissioned  by  the 
mayor  to  act  as  police  officers  which  shall  be  for  election 
days  only ; and  they  shall  remain  in  attendance  at  the  polls 
during  every  election  day,  unless  necessarily  absent. 

Sect.  6.  Said  supervisors  shall  have  the  same  powers 
and  be  entitled  to  the  same  protection  by  law,  while  in  the 
performance  of  their  duties,  as  is  now  afforded  to  selectmen 
while  in  attendance  correcting  the  check-lists,  or  otherwise 
in  the  performance  of  their  duties,  and  may  require  the 
presence  of  policemen  to  preserve  order,  if  necessary. 

Sect.  7.  The  mayor  and  board  of  aldermen  shall  have 
power  to  fill  any  vacancy  which  may  occur  in  the  board 
of  supervisors. 

Sect.  8.  The  chairman  of  the  board  of  supervisors  shall 
select  the  ward  canvassers,  which  shall  be  not  less  than 
two  for  each  ward. 

Sect.  9.  The  mayor  and  board  of  aldermen  shall  fix  the 
compensation  of  the  board  of  supervisors,  which  shall  not 
be  over  two  dollars  and  fifty  cents  per  day  for  actual  service. 

Sect.  10.  The  board  of  aldermen  shall,  on  or  before 
the  first  day  of  October  next,  appoint  five  supervisors,  one 
from  each  ward,  and  the  persons  so  appointed  shall,  upon 
taking  the  oath  of  office  by  law  prescribed,  have  and  shall 
possess  and  enjoy  all  the  power  vested  by  law  to  be 
performed  by  such  officers  for  the  first  meeting  held  for  the 
election  of  such  supervisors,  who  shall  perform  all  the  duties 


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thereof  until  others  are  elected  in  their  places  as  provided 
by  section  first  of  this  amendment. 

Sect.  11.  Said  board  of  supervisors  shall,  before  enter- 
ing upon  the  duties  of  their  office,  be  sworn  to  the  faithful 
discharge  of  their  duties. 

Sect.  12.  No  member  of  the  board  of  supervisors  dur- 
ing his  term  of  office  shall  hold  the  office  of  selectman. 

Sect.  13.  All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  with 
the  provisions  of  this  act  are  hereby  repealed,  and  this  act 
shall  take  effect  from  its  passage. 

[Approved  August  16,  1878.] 


AN  ACT  IN  AMENDMENT  OF  THE  CHARTER  OF 
THE  CITY  OF  KEENE. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives 
in  General  Court  convened : 

Section  1.  That  section  three  of  the  charter  of  the  city 
of  Keene,  passed  at  June  session,  eighteen  hundred  and  sev- 
enty-eight, be  stricken  out,  and  that  the  following  be  insert- 
ed in  its  place:  “Sect.  3.  The  several  check-lists,  as  finally 
corrected  by  the  supervisors,  shall  be  given  into  the  hands 
of  the  selectmen  of  their  respective  wards  before  the  hour  of 
meeting,  and  shall  be  used  in  voting  at  every  election ; and 
the  clerk  of  each  ward  shall,  immediately  upon  the  closing 
of  the  polls,  pass  said  check-list  into  the  hands  of  the  super- 
visor in  attendance,  who  shall  within  ten  days  pass  the 
same  into  the  hands  of  the  city  clerk,  to  be  filed  for  preser- 
vation.” 

[Approved  July  18,  1879.] 


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AN  ACT  IN  AMENDMENT  OF  “AN  ACT  TO 
ESTABLISH  THE  CITY  OF  KEENE.” 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives 

in  General  Court  convened: 

Section  1.  That  said  act  to  establish  the  city  of  Keene, 
approved  July  3,  1873,  and  adopted  by  vote  of  the  town  of 
Keene,  be  and  hereby  is  amended  by  striking  out  all  provi- 
sions therein  relating  to  the  election  of  “ assessors  of  taxes  ” 
and  “overseers  of  the  poor;”  but  nothing  in  this  act  shall 
affect  the  rights  and  duties  of  the  present  incumbents  of  said 
offices  prior  to  the  expiration  of  their  several  terms  of  office. 

Sect.  2.  The  city  councils  being  met  in  convention 
upon  the  day  appointed  by  ordinance,  shall  by  joint  ballot 
and  by  major  vote  elect  one  or  more  overseers  of  the  poor, 
as  may  be  prescribed  by  ordinance;  and  the  city  councils 
shall  provide  by  ordinance  for  the  election  of  assessors  of 
taxes,  agreeably  to  section  9 of  chapter  47  of  the  General 
Laws  of  New  Hampshire. 

Sect.  3.  All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  with 
this  act  are  hereby  repealed,  and  this  act  shall  take  effect 
from  its  passage. 

[Approved  August  15,  1883.] 


CITY  ORDINANCES* 


CITY  ORDINANCES. 

REVISED  MARCH  15,  1900. 


CITY  OF  KEENE. 

In  the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  nine  hundred. 

Be  it  ordained  by  the  City  Councils  of  the  city  of  Keene 
as  follows : — 

CHAPTER  I. 

ACCOUNTS,  EXPENDITURES  AND  FINANCES. 

Section  1.  There  shall  be  elected  by  the  city  councils 
in  joint  convention,  by  ballot  and  major  vote,  immediately 
after  the  passage  of  this  ordinance,  and  at  the  beginning  of 
each  municipal  year  thereafter,  an  auditor,  to  whom  shall  be 
presented  all  claims  and  accounts  against  said  city  by  the 
person  or  persons  to  whom  such  claims  or  accounts  are  due, 
or  by  some  person  duly  authorized  to  act  in  his  or  their 
behalf.  The  auditor  shall  sit  for  the  transaction  of  business 
in  the  office  of  the  city  clerk  each  Saturday  between  the 
hours  of  two  and  five  and  seven  and  nine  p.  m.,  during  the 
year.  He  shall  carefully  examine  all  claims  and  accounts 
against  the  city  which  are  properly  presented  to  him,  except 
salaries  of  city  officers,  claims  authorized  to  be  paid  by  the 
mayor  and  aldermen  or  city  councils,  and  judgments  or 
claims  required  by  statute  to  be  differently  presented,  unless 
otherwise  specially  provided.  All  claims  and  accounts 
arising  from  transactions  with  the  various  departments  of  the 
city  government  shall  be  certified  as  correct  by  the  proper 


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officer  who  authorized  the  liability  to  be  incurred,  before 
they  shall  be  acted  upon  by  the  auditor.  He  shall  approve 
and  allow  all  claims  presented  as  aforesaid  which  appear  to 
him  to  be  unquestionably  due  and  owing  from  the  city,  and 
shall  enter  upon  a book  kept  for  that  purpose  in  the  office  of 
the  city  clerk,  all  claims  and  accounts  by  him  allowed, 
giving  in  each  case  the  amount,  the  name  of  the  party  to 
whom  payable  and  the  date  upon  which  the  same  was 
allowed.  All  doubtful  and  questionable  claims  presented  to 
him  shall  be  by  him  so  marked  over  his  signature  and 
returned  to  the  party  presenting  them,  who  may  then  submit 
them  to  the  board  of  mayor  and  aldermen  for  their  con- 
sideration. 

Sect.  2.  The  city  clerk  shall,  under  the  direction  of 
the  board  of  mayor  and  aldermen,  keep  a book  or  ledger,  in 
which  he  shall  enter  the  various  appropriations  made  by  the 
city  councils,  each  under  its  appropriate  head,  and  charge  to 
each  the  different  payments  and  expenditures  which  from 
time  to  time  shall  be  made  therefrom,  entering  therein  the 
date  and  amount  of  every  account  and  claim  against  the  city 
as  finally  corrected  and  allowed  by  said  auditor  or  board  of 
mayor  and  aldermen  and  also  the  name  of  the  person  to 
whom  the  same  has  been  allowed,  designating  the  fund  or 
appropriation  from  which  the  same  shall  be  paid.  Whenever 
any  appropriation  shall  be  expended,  the  city  clerk  shall 
immediately  notify  the  mayor,  the  city  councils,  and  the 
auditor ; and  the  auditor  or  board  of  mayor  and  aldermen 
shall  not  pass  or  allow  any  claim  or  account  chargeable  to 
any  head  or  appropriation  which  has  been  expended,  until 
the  city  councils  shall  have  provided  the  means  of  paying 
the  same.  Nor  shall  any  officer  of  the  city  or  committee 
of  the  city  councils  have  power  to  pledge  the  credit  of  the 
city  for  any  debts  they  may  incur  beyond  the  appropria- 
tions set  apart  for  the  various  departments  unless  thereto 
specially  authorized  by  vote  of  the  city  councils.  The 
city  clerk  shall  also  open  an  account  with  the  city  treas- 
urer, charging  him  with  the  amount  of  loans  to  the 
city,  and  all  sums  of  money  paid  to  him  in  behalf  of  said 


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city  by  the  collector  or  other  officers  or  agents  of  the  city,  or 
by  any  person  in  any  way  indebted  to  the  city,  and  also  with 
all  bonds,  notes,  mortgages,  or  other  securities  in  the  hands 
of  the  treasurer,  or  which  may  pass  into  his  hands,  belong- 
ing to  the  city,  to  the  end  that  the  amount  and  value  thereof 
may  at  any  time  be  seen  on  his  books. 

Sect.  3.  The  city  clerk  shall  certify  the  amount  of 
salary  due  all  officers  of  the  city  when  requested  so  to  do, 
and  that  claims  authorized  to  be  paid  by  vote  of  the  mayor 
and  aldermen  or  city  councils  are  drawn  in  accordance  with 
the  vote  authorizing  the  same ; and  he  shall  enter  all  such 
claims  upon  the  book  which  he  is  required  to  keep  as 
directed,  in  the  same  manner  as  he  enters  claims  passed 
upon  by  said  auditor  or  board  of  mayor  and  aldermen. 

Sect.  4.  No  money  shall  be  drawn  out  of  the  city 
treasury  except  upon  the  written  order  of  the  mayor, 
addressed  to  the  treasurer,  payable  to  order,  and  counter- 
signed by  the  city  clerk,  and  numbered  so  as  to  correspond 
with  the  account  or  claim  it  shall  be  drawn  to  pay,  provided, 
however,  that  the  city  clerk  may  disburse  to  the  employes, 
taking  their  receipt  therefor,  the  amount  of  orders  so  drawn 
upon  the  treasury  for  pay-rolls  allowed  to  said  employes  in 
any  department. 

Sect.  5.  The  mayor  is  hereby  authorized  to  draw 
orders  on  the  treasurer  for  the  payment  of  all  accounts  or 
claims  allowed  and  certified  by  the  auditor  or  board  of 
mayor  and  aldermen  as  herein  before  provided,  but  the 
mayor  shall  not  draw  an  order  in  payment  for  any  services 
rendered,  or  any  materials  furnished  for  any  department, 
beyond  the  sum  specially  appropriated  therefor  by  the  city 
councils. 

Sect.  6.  Any  sum  of  money  which  shall  have  been 
specially  appropriated  for  the  payment  of  principal  or 
interest  due  on  any  note  or  other  security  of  the  city,  or  of 
the  state  and  county  taxes,  may  be  drawn  from  the  treasury 
and  paid  by  the  order  of  the  mayor  for  the  purpose  for  which 
it  was  appropriated  without  any  action  on  the  part  of  the 
auditor  or  board  of  mayor  and  aldermen ; and  whenever  it 


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shall  be  necessary  to  pay  money  in  advance  on  contracts 
made,  or  for  work  begun,  but  not  completed,  the  mayor, 
upon  being  satisfied  of  such  necessity,  may  draw  his  order 
on  the  treasurer  for  a sum  not  exceeding  two  hundred  dollars 
at  any  one  time,  taking  security  therefor. 

Sect.  7.  Whenever  any  money  shall  be  drawn  from 
the  treasury  for  the  purpose  specified  in  the  preceding 
section,  the  city  clerk  shall  report  the  same  and  the  amount 
thereof  to  the  board  of  mayor  and  aldermen  at  their  next 
meeting,  and  shall  charge  the  same  under  the  appropriate 
head  of  expenditures. 

Sect.  8.  All  city  officers  who  shall  in  their  official 
capacity  receive  any  money  on  behalf  of  the  city,  shall, 
unless  otherwise  ordered,  pay  to  the  treasurer  the  amount  in 
their  hands  at  the  close  of  each  month,  oroftener  if  required, 
and  report  the  same  to  the  board  of  mayor  and  aldermen 
monthly,  except  the  collector  of  taxes,  who  shall  make  such 
payment  daily  whenever  the  sum  in  his  hands  shall  amount 
to  two  hundred  dollars;  and  shall  make  settlements  with  the 
city  treasurer  at  such  times  as  the  treasurer  may  request. 
All  other  persons  who  shall  at  any  time  have  money  in  their 
hands  belonging  to  the  city,  shall  forthwith  pay  the  same 
to  the  treasurer. 

Sect.  9.  In  all  cases  of  the  payment  of  money  to  the 
city  treasurer,  he  shall  give  his  receipt  for  the  amount  to  the 
person  paying  the  same,  which  receipt  shall  be  delivered  by 
such  person  to  the  city  clerk  and  filed  in  his  office,  and  the 
city  clerk  shall  give  to  the  person  paying,  a certificate  as 
evidence  of  such  payment.  All  city  officers  and  agents 
receiving  money  in  behalf  of  said  city,  shall  deliver  to  the 
city  clerk,  once  a month,  a report  in  detail  of  the  amount 
received,  and  what  disposition  has  been  made  thereof, 
except  in  cases  otherwise  provided. 

Sect.  10.  The  city  treasurer  shall,  under  the  direction 
of  the  board  of  mayor  and  aldermen,  keep  in  a book  pro- 
vided for  that  purpose,  an  accurate  and  true  account  of  all 
his  receipts  and  payments  on  behalf  of  the  city,  making  the 
same  conform  in  mode  of  entry  as  nearly  as  may  be  with  the 


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accounts  kept  by  the  city  clerk.  He  shall  not  pay  any 
money  out  of  the  treasury  except  upon  orders  of  the  mayor 
drawn  in  the  form  prescribed  in  the  fourth  section.  He 
shall,  once  in  six  months,  and  oftener  if  required,  lay  before 
the  city  councils  a statement  of  the  condition  of  the  treasury, 
and  all  moneys  received  and  paid  by  him  on  city  account 
during  the  preceding  six  months. 

Sect.  11.  There  shall  be  appointed,  at  the  commence- 
ment of  each  municipal  year,  a joint  committee  on  finance, 
consisting  of  the  mayor,  one  member  of  the  board  of  aider- 
men,  and  two  members  of  the  common  council,  which  com- 
mittee shall  negotiate  all  loans  to  the  city  which  shall  be 
authorized  by  the  city  councils,  and  shall  report  the  amounts 
to  the  city  treasurer. 

Sect.  12.  The  committee  on  finance  shall  annually,  in 
the  month  of  December,  prepare  and  lay  before  the  city 
councils  an  estimate  of  the  amount  of  money  necessary  to  be 
raised  for  the  ensuing  financial  year,  under  the  various 
heads  of  appropriations  and  the  various  means  for  raising 
the  same,  and  shall  also  prepare  and  lay  before  the  city 
councils  a statement  of  all  receipts  and  expenditures  of  the 
preceding  financial  year,  giving  in  detail  the  amount  of 
appropriation  and  expenditure  for  each  department;  and 
said  statement  shall  be  accompanied  with  a schedule  of 
property,  real  and  personal,  belonging  to  the  city,  and  the 
value  thereof,  and  the  amount  of  the  city  debts. 

Sect.  13.  The  committee  on  finance  shall,  at  the  close 
of  each  financial  year,  and  as  much  oftener  as  they  shall 
deem  it  expedient,  examine  and  audit  the  accounts  of  the 
city  treasurer,  and  for  that  purpose  shall  have  access  to  all 
the  books  and  vouchers  in  his  possession  or  in  possession  of 
the  city  clerk  or  any  other  officer  of  the  city.  Said  committee 
shall  not  only  compare  said  accounts  with  the  vouchers 
thereof,  but  shall  ascertain  whether  all  moneys  due  the  city 
have  been  collected  and  accounted  for.  They  shall  also 
examine  all  bonds,  notes  and  securities  in  his  hands  belong- 
ing to  the  city,  and  make  report  thereof  to  the  city 
councils. 


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Sect.  14.  The  city  treasurer  shall  make  up  his  accounts 
to  the  first  day  of  December,  and  the  financial  year  shall 
begin  and  end  on  the  first  day  of  December,  in  each  year. 


CHAPTER  II. 

CITY  MARSHAL  AND  POLICE. 

Section  1.  The  mayor  and  aldermen  shall,  at  the  com- 
mencement of  every  municipal  year,  appoint  a city  marshal, 
who  shall,  before  entering  upon  the  duties  of  his  office,  take, 
before  the  mayor  and  aldermen,  the  oaths  prescribed  bylaw, 
and  shall  give  bond  in  the  sum  of  three  hundred  dollars, 
with  sureties  to  be  approved  by  the  mayor  and  aldermen, 
for  the  faithful  performance  of  the  duties  of  said  office. 

Sect.  2.  The  city  marshal  shall  at  all  times  have  com- 
mand over  the  police  officers  of  the  city  when  acting  together 
in  the  same  service  or  when  directed  by  the  mayor.  They 
shall  aid  and  assist  the  city  marshal  in  executing  the  duties 
of  his  office  when  requested  by  him,  or  directed  by  the 
mayor  so  to  do.  But  when  the  city  marshal  shall  not  be 
present,  said  officers  shall  have  power  to  act  in  his  stead, 
taking  precedence  in  the  order  of  their  appointment.  Said 
marshal  shall  have  command  over  the  constables  of  the  city 
when  needed  for  police  duty. 

Sect.  3.  The  city  marshal  shall  perform  the  duties  of  a 
policeman  day  and  evening,  and  devote  his  whole  time  to 
the  police  service,  and  shall,  from  time  to  time,  pass  through 
the  streets  and  highways  of  the  city,  and  take  notice  of  all 
nuisances,  obstructions  and  impediments  therein,  and  on 
the  sidewalks  thereof,  and  cause  the  same  to  be  forthwith 
removed,  and  the  authors  thereof  to  be  prosecuted  according 
to  law.  He  shall  observe  all  defects  and  wants  of  the  high- 
ways and  streets,  and  give  immediate  notice  thereof  to  the 
mayor  and  aldermen,  to  the  end  that  the  same  may  be 
amended.  He  shall,  to  the  utmost  of  his  ability,  preserve 
the  public  peace,  and  prevent  all  riots,  disorders  and  unlaw- 
ful practices  within  the  city.  He  shall  carry  into  execution 


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within  the  city  the  laws  of  the  state  and  all  the  ordinances 
of  the  city,  and  be  vigilant  to  detect  and  bring  to  punish- 
ment all  violation  thereof.  He  shall  obey  and  execute  all 
the  commands  of  the  mayor  and  aldermen,  relating  to  the 
interest  or  security  of  the  city.  He  shall  receive  all  com- 
plaints made  to  him  of  any  violation  of  the  laws,  or  any 
ordinances  of  the  city,  and  shall,  in  behalf  of  the  city, 
cause  all  offenders  against  such  laws  and  ordinances  to  be 
promptly  prosecuted  before  the  police  court  of  the  city  of 
Keene,  and  shall  attend,  on  behalf  of  the  city,  at  their  trials. 
He  shall  lay  before  the  mayor  and  aldermen,  once  in  three 
months,  and  oftener  if  required,  a statement  of  all  offences 
against  the  laws  of  the  state,  and  the  ordinances  of  the 
city,  which  have  come  to  his  knowledge,  of  all  prosecutions 
instituted  by  him  in  behalf  of  the  city,  and  the  result  of 
the  same. 

Sect.  4.  The  marshal  shall,  under  the  authority  and 
control  of  the  mayor  and  aldermen,  carry  into  execution  all 
rules  and  ordinances  which  shall,  from  time  to  time,  be 
made  by  the  city  councils  relative  to  the  causes  of  sickness, 
nuisances,  and  sources  of  filth,  which  may  affect  injuriously 
the  health  or  comfort  of  the  inhabitants ; and  shall  cause 
all  such  nuisances,  sources  of  filth  and  causes  of  sickness 
to  be  immediately  removed,  destroyed,  or  prevented,  con- 
formably to  such  ordinances  and  the  laws  of  the  state. 

Sect.  5.  The  marshal  shall  execute  and  carry  into 
effect  all  ordinances  which  shall,  from  time  to  time,  be  made 
by  the  city  councils  to  prevent  unlawful  and  injurious 
practices  in  the  streets  and  other  public  places  in  the  city. 

Sect.  6.  The  marshal  shall,  in  case  of  fire,  repair 
immediately  to  the  place  where  the  fire  may  be,  and 
attend  diligently  to  the  preservation  of  the  public  peace, 
and  the  prevention  of  thefts,  and  loss  or  destruction  of 
property. 

Sect.  7.  The  mayor  and  aldermen  may  appoint  such 
number  of  police  officers  as  they  may  deem  necessary,  by 
writing  under  their  hands.  Said  officers  may  be  appointed 
at  any  time  during  the  year,  may  be  removed  at  the 


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pleasure  of  the  mayor  and  aldermen,  shall  hold  their 
offices,  unless  removed,  until  the  first  Tuesday  of  January 
next  succeeding,  and  shall  each  render  to  the  city  marshal 
every  month  an  account  of  their  services,  and  of  the  time 
spent  in  the  discharge  of  their  official  duties.  The  mayor 
and  aldermen  may,  whenever  they  shall  deem  it  expedient, 
number  the  police  officers,  and  each  police  officer  shall, 
when  on  duty,  wear  the  number  designated  upon  his  badge. 

Sect.  8.  If  the  city  marshal  shall  receive  any  sum  of 
money  for  any  services  rendered,  or  act  done,  by  virtue  of 
his  office,  he  shall  pay  over  the  same  to  the  city  treasurer 
monthly,  with  all  sums  received  of  the  police  officers,  and 
shall,  at  the  same  time,  deliver  to  the  city  clerk  an  account 
in  detail  of  the  different  sources  from  which  such  money 
was  received. 

Sect.  9.  The  city  marshal  shall,  under  the  direction  of 
the  mayor  and  aldermen,  from  time  to  time,  when  in  their 
judgment  the  public  good  requires  the  same,  detail  one  or 
more  of  the  police  officers  to  act  as  a night-watch.  Said 
city  marshal  shall  be  captain  of  the  watch,  and  shall  obey 
and  execute  all  rules  and  orders  made  and  given  him  in 
charge  in  that  behalf  by  the  mayor  and  aldermen.  When 
on  the  watch,  he  shall  pass  in  and  about  the  streets  and 
principal  inhabited  places  of  the  city,  to  prevent  danger  by 
fire,  and  to  see  that  order  is  kept,  and  that  all  disturbances 
and  disorders  are  prevented  and  suppressed ; and,  for  that 
purpose,  he,  as  well  as  any  of  the  watch,  shall  have 
authority  to  examine  all  persons  whom  they  shall  see 
walking  abroad  in  the  night  after  ten  o’clock,  and  whom 
they  shall  have  reason  to  suspect  of  any  unlawful  design, 
and  to  demand  of  them  their  business  abroad  at  such  time, 
and  whither  they  are  going ; to  enter  any  house  of  ill-fame, 
dram-shop,  cellar,  or  other  building,  for  the  purpose  of 
suppressing  any  riot  or  disturbance  therein,  and  to  arrest 
any  person  there  found  making,  or  abetting,  such  riot  or 
disturbance;  and  all  persons  so  walking  abroad  and  sus- 
pected of  any  unlawful  design  as  aforesaid,  who  shall  not 
give  a satisfactory  account  of  their  being  so  abroad,  and 


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of  their  business,  and  all  persons  so  arrested  in  such  house 
of  ill-fame,  dram-shop,  cellar,  or  other  building,  shall  be 
secured  by  imprisonment,  or  otherwise,  to  be  safely  kept 
until  the  next  morning,  and  shall  then  be  taken  before  the 
police  court,  to  be  examined  and  proceeded  with  according 
to  the  nature  of  their  offences. 

Sect.  10.  The  mayor  and  aldermen  may  by  vote  at 
any  time  remove  from  office  the  city  marshal  and  appoint 
a successor.  They  may  also,  in  case  of  the  death  or  resig- 
nation of  said  officer,  or  in  case  a vacancy  shall  occur  in 
any  other  way,  appoint  another  in  his  place. 


CHAPTER  III. 

ROAD  COMMISSIONERS.  SUPERINTENDENT  OF  HIGHWAYS. 

Section  1.  The  city  councils  shall,  in  the  month  of 
January,  1900,  in  convention  and  by  joint  ballot,  elect  three 
road  commissioners,  to  hold  office,  one  for  one  year,  one 
for  two  years,  and  one  for  three  years  from  the  first  Tues- 
day of  said  January  and  until  others  are  chosen  in  their 
stead,  and  annually  thereafter  shall  in  the  month  of  Jan- 
uary, in  the  same  manner,  elect  one  road  commissioner,  to 
hold  office  for  three  years  from  the  first  Tuesday  of  said 
January  and  until  another  is  chosen  in  his  stead.  When- 
ever a vacancy  shall  occur  by  resignation  or  otherwise,  the 
city  councils  shall  in  the  same  manner  elect  a member  of 
said  board  of  road  commissioners  for  the  unexpired  term. 
Any  member  of  said  board  may  at  any  time  be  removed 
for  cause  by  the  city  councils  acting  in  convention  and  by 
joint  ballot. 

Sect.  2.  Said  commissioners  shall  constitute  a board  of 
road  commissioners  and  shall  choose  from  their  number  a 
president  and  clerk,  and  shall  make  all  such  rules  and 
regulations  for  their  government  as  they  may  deem  con- 
venient. 

Sect.  3.  Said  commissioners  shall  receive  in  full  for 
their  services  and  all  the  duties  appertaining  to  their  office, 


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the  sum  of  twenty-five  dollars  each,  per  year,  payable  in 
equal  semi-annual  installments. 

Sect.  4.  Said  board  of  road  commissioners  shall  have 
the  general  charge  and  management  of  all  the  highways, 
streets,  lanes,  sidewalks,  and  bridges  of  the  city,  and  the 
construction,  repair  and  alteration  thereof,  and  the  full 
power  to  direct  the  superintendent  of  streets  in  the  dis- 
charge of  his  duties. 

Sect.  5.  Said  board  shall  on  or  before  the  first  day  of 
December  of  each  year  make  a written  report  of  its  doings 
to  the  city  councils  together  with  such  recommendations 
as  it  may  deem  advisable  for  the  best  interests  of  the  city, 
and  shall  transmit  to  the  city  councils  at  the  same  time, 
the  report  of  the  superintendent  of  streets. 

Sect.  6.  The  board  shall  judiciously  expend  such  sums 
of  money,  if  necessary,  as  may  be  appropriated  by  the  city 
councils  for  highways,  expending  the  different  appropria- 
tions for  the  purposes  designated  by  the  city  councils  and 
not  otherwise,  and  shall  approve  all  bills  for  labor  and 
materials  incurred  in  their  department.  The  board  shall 
have  no  power  to  create  any  debt  against  the  city  for  any 
purpose  in  excess  of  the  appropriation  therefor. 

Sect.  7.  The  city  councils  shall  in  the  month  of  Janu- 
ary of  each  year,  and  also  whenever  any  vacancy  shall 
occur  by  resignation  or  otherwise,  elect  a superintendent 
of  highways,  in  convention  and  by  joint  ballot,  to  hold  his 
office  until  the  first  Tuesday  of  January  next  succeeding 
his  election  and  until  another  is  chosen  in  his  stead  unless 
removed  by  the  city  councils. 

Sect.  8.  The  superintendent  of  highways,  under  the 
control  and  direction  of  the  board  of  road  commissioners, 
shall  have  the  immediate  care  and  supervision  of  the  said 
highways,  streets,  lanes,  sidewalks  and  bridges  and  shall 
do  all  such  things  in  the  construction,  repair  and  altera- 
tion thereof  as  he  may  be  directed  to  do  by  the  said  board. 
He  shall,  under  said  direction  and  control,  cause  the  same 
to  be  kept  in  repair  so  as  to  be  safe  and  convenient  for 
travelers,  with  their  horses,  teams  and  carriages,  at  all 


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seasons  of  the  year;  make  all  necessary  contracts  and 
certify  to  said  commissioners  accounts  for  the  supply  of 
any  labor  or  materials  he  may  require  in  the  discharge  of 
his  official  duty  and  expend  all  such  sums  of  money  as  he 
may  be  directed  to  do  by  said  board.  He  shall  each  week 
file  in  the  office  of  the  city  clerk  an  approved  pay  roll, 
setting  forth  the  names  of  all  persons  hired,  the  length  of 
time  each  has  been  employed  and  the  amount  of  compen- 
sation. He  shall  also  state  the  localities  in  which  work 
has  been  done  during  the  week.  He  shall  have  charge  of 
the  teams,  tools  and  paraphernalia  of  the  highway  depart- 
ment, and  shall  see  that  the  same  are  kept  in  suitable 
repair  and  are  properly  housed. 

Sect.  9.  Whenever  any  highway  or  bridge  or  street  of 
the  city  shall,  from  want  of  necessary  repairs  or  by  reason 
of  any  alteration  or  repairs  being  made,  or  of  any  drain, 
common  sewer  or  culvert  being  open  or  constructed  across 
or  through  the  same,  be  unsafe . or  inconvenient  for  travel- 
ers or  passengers,  said  superintendent  shall  forthwith  put 
up  a suitable  fence  across  such  highway,  street  or  bridge, 
and  exclude  all  travelers  from  passing  over  the  same;  or 
cause  the  part  thereof  so  rendered  unsafe  or  inconvenient 
as  aforesaid  to  be  enclosed  by  a sufficient  fence,  which  shall 
be  kept  standing  so  long  as  the  same  shall  remain  unsafe 
or  inconvenient;  and  he  shall  also  fix  one  or  more  lighted 
lanterns  to  said  fence,  to  be  kept  there  every  night  from 
twilight  in  the  evening  and  through  the  whole  night  so 
long  as  said  fence  shall  be  kept  standing. 

Sect.  10.  Said  superintendent  shall,  under  the  direction 
of  the  joint  standing  committee  on  lands  and  buildings, 
rent  the  city  pasture,  collect  the  income  and  deposit  the 
same  with  the  city  treasurer,  attend  to  the  building  or  re- 
pairs of  fences,  and  all  other  matters  necessary  for  the* 
preservation  and  proper  management  of  the  property,  and 
at  the  end  of  the  year  report  to  the  board  of  mayor  and 
aldermen  the  receipts  and  expenditures  of  said  city  pasture. 

Sect.  11.  Said  superintendent  shall,  at  all  times  subject 
to  any  order  of  the  mayor,  when  requested  by  the  superin- 


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tendent  of  water  works  and  sewers,  aid  and  furnish  men 
and  teams  to  perform  any  unusual  and  necessary  work  in 
that  department. 

Sect.  12.  The  superintendent  shall  annually  on  or  before 
the  first  day  of  December  make  a written  report  of  his  doings 
to  the  said  board  of  road  commissioners,  which  shall  include 
an  inventory  of  all  the  property  of  the  city  in  his  custody 
and  control. 


CHAPTER  IV. 

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PUBLIC  LIGHTS  AND  LAMPS. 

The  joint  standing  committee  on  street  lights  shall 
change  the  existing  gas,  gasoline  and  arc  electric  lights 
wherever  such  change  will  be  advantageous  to  the  public, 
under  the  direction  and  control  of  the  board  of  mayor 
and  aldermen,  and  shall  make  such  further  changes  as  may 
be  ordered  by  said  board. 


CHAPTER  V. 

WATER  WORKS,  SEWERS  AND  DRAINS. 

Section  1.  The  general  management  of  the  water 
works,  sewers  and  drains  shall  be  vested  in  a board  of 
three  commissioners,  to  be  elected  by  the  city  councils,  one 
of  which  board  shall  be  elected  annually  in  the  month  of 
May  to  serve  for  the  term  of  three  years  from  the  first  day 
of  June  next  thereafter.  Said  commissioners  shall  elect  a 
president  and  clerk  of  said  board,  and  may  make  such  rules 
and  regulations  for  their  own  government,  and  in  relation 
to  all  officers  appointed  by  them,  as  they  may  deem  expe- 
dient. Said  commissioners  may  be  removed  at  any  time 
by  the  city  councils. 

Sect.  2.  The  board  of  commissioners,  so  constituted 
and  organized,  shall  have  and  exercise  all  the  powers  vested 
in  the  city  of  Keene  by  an  act  of  the  legislature  approved 
July  3,  1873,  entitled,  “An  act  to  establish  the  city  of 


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Keene,”  so  far  as  the  same  shall  be  delegated  to  them  by 
the  city  councils ; but  all  their  powers  shall  be  subject  to 
any  limitations  and  restrictions  contained  in  the  ordinances, 
regulations  and  orders  of  the  city  councils. 

Sect.  3.  The  board  of  commissioners  shall,  on  or 
before  the  first  day  of  December  in  each  year,  present  to  the 
city  councils  a report  containing  a statement  of  the  condi- 
tion of  the  water  works,  and  of  the  lands  and  other  prop- 
erty connected  therewith,  and  of  the  sewers  and  drains, 
with  an  account  of  all  receipts  and  expenditures,  together 
with  any  information  or  suggestions  which  they  may  deem 
important;  and  they  shall,  at  the  same  time,  transmit  to 
the  city  councils  the  report  of  the  superintendent. 

Sect.  4.  The  board  of  commissioners  shall  have  full 
power  to  make  all  necessary  repairs  or  improvements  on 
said  water  works,  sewers  and  drains,  and  to  procure  new 
water  supply  pipes,  sewer  pipes  and  all  other  materials 
necessary  therefor;  all  hydrants,  sewer  mains  and  flush 
tanks  and  drains  established  by  the  city  shall  be  constructed 
and  kept  in  thorough  repair  by  said  board ; but  said  board 
shall  have  no  power  to  expend  any  money  on  extensions, 
either  of  water  mains,  sewers  or  drains,  unless  by  order  of 
the  board  of  mayor  and  aldermen. 

Sect.  5.  The  board  of  commissioners  is  authorized  to 
determine  and  establish,  from  time  to  time,  a tariff  of  water 
rates,  and  to  enter  into  special  contracts  with  individuals 
or  corporations  for  the  supply  of  water  for  a term  not 
exceeding  one  year;  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  super- 
intendent, under  the  direction  of  the  board,  to  visit,  once 
at  least  in  each  year,  the  premises  of  every  water  taker, 
and  to  exercise  a constant  supervision  over  the  use  of  the 
water. 

Sect.  6.  The  board  of  commissioners  shall,  at  least 
once  in  three  months,  audit  the  accounts  of  the  city  collector 
so  far  as  they  relate  to  the  collection  and  deposit  of  water 
assessments,  and  semi-annually  certify  to  the  accuracy  of 
his  books  and  vouchers.  They  may  also  make  abatements 
in  water  rents  in  all  proper  cases. 


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Sect.  7.  No  member  of  the  board  of  commissioners,  or 
of  the  city  councils,  and  no  person  appointed  to  any  office, 
or  employed  by  virtue  of  this  ordinance,  shall  be  interested, 
directly  or  indirectly,  in  any  contract,  bargain,  sale  or 
agreement,  except  for  the  use  of  water,  in  relation  to  the 
water  works,  sewers,  or  drains,  or  any  matter  or  thing 
connected  therewith  wherein  the  city  is  interested ; and  all 
contracts,  bargains,  sales  or  agreements  made  in  violation 
of  this  section  shall  be  utterly  void  as  to  the  city. 

Sect.  8.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  board  of  commis- 
sioners to  keep  in  the  office  of  the  superintendent,  a chart 
or  plan  upon  which  shall  be  represented  the  highways, 
streets,  and  places  in  and  through  which  the  pipes  of  said 
water  works  are  laid,  and  upon  which  shall  be  designated, 
by  appropriate  figures  and  characters,  the  exact  length  of 
the  pipes,  the  precise  location  in  such  highways,  streets,  or 
places  of  each  pipe,  hydrant,  gate  or  point  of  junction  of 
the  service  pipe;  and  whenever  any  extension  of  the  main 
pipes  shall  be  made,  or  additions  or  changes  of,  or  in, 
hydrants,  gates,  or  service  pipes,  the  same  shall  be,  from 
time  to  time,  accurately  designated  upon  said  chart  or 
plan.  They  shall  also  keep  in  said  office  a similar  detailed 
plan  of  all  sewers  and  drains  and  the  connections  therewith, 
and  of  all  Ys,  Ts,  hand-holes,  man-holes,  flush  tanks,  or 
branches  upon  the  mains. 

Sect.  9.  The  board  of  commissioners  is  authorized  to 
make  all  such  regulations  in  regard  to  the  use  of  the  water 
and  of  the  service  pipes,  and  for  the  protection  of  the  main 
pipes  and  other  property  appertaining  to  the  water  works 
and  sewers,  as  they  may  deem  reasonable  and  proper. 

Sect.  10.  The  immediate  care  and  supervision  of  the 
water  works,  sewers  and  drains  shall  be  vested  in  a super- 
intendent, who  shall  be  elected  by  the  city  councils  in  joint 
convention,  whenever  a vacancy  in  said  office  may  exist, 
and  shall  hold  his  office  until  the  first  Tuesday  of  January 
next  succeeding,  or  until  another  shall  be  qualified  in  his 
stead;  but  said  superintendent  may  be  removed  at  any 
time  by  the  city  councils. 


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Sect.  11.  The  superintendent  shall  take  charge  of  the 
reservoirs,  aqueduct,  lands  and  other  property  connected 
with  the  water  works,  and  of  the  sewers  and  drains,  as 
the  board  of  commissioners  may,  from  time  to  time,  direct, 
and  shall  perform  all  such  services  in  relation  thereto  as  may 
be  required  of  him  by  said  board,  or  the  city  councils ; and 
he  shall  annually,  on  or  before  the  first  day  of  December, 
present  to  the  board  a report  of  the  general  condition  of 
the  works ; also,  a statement  of  the  expenditures,  the  number 
of  water  takers,  the  number  of  sewer  connections,  the  num- 
ber of  cases  in  which  the  water  has  been  cut  off,  and  such 
other  matters  as  he  or  the  board  of  commissioners  may 
deem  expedient. 

Sect.  12.  The  superintendent  shall,  before  the  twen- 
tieth of  May  and  the  twentieth  of  November,  each  year, 
make  out  a list  of  the  water  takers  and  the  amount  of  the 
assessment  against  each,  and  shall  also  make  an  itemized 
bill  of  said  assessment  for  each  taker  in  duplicate,  and 
before  the  first  day  of  June  and  December  next  following, 
shall  deliver  to  the  collector  of  taxes  and  water  assessments 
said  list  and  said  bills,  and  retain  the  duplicate  bills  in  his 
office.  He  shall  in  like  manner  make  assessments  against 
those  who  become  takers  between  said  dates,  and  deliver 
the  same  to  said  collector. 

Sect.  13.  The  superintendent  shall  keep  suitable  books, 
in  which  shall  be  entered  the  names  of  all  persons  who 
take  water,  the  kind  of  building,  the  name  of  the  street, 
the  nature  of  the  use,  the  number  of  takers,  the  amount 
charged  and  amount  of  abatements  as  reported  to  him  by 
the  commissioners,  which  shall  always  be  open  to  the 
inspection  of  the  commissioners  and  any  committee  of  the 
city  councils. 

Sect.  14.  All  bills  for  expenditures  for  the  water  works, 
sewers  or  drains  shall,  before  they  are  presented  to  the 
auditor,  be  approved  by  the  board  of  commissioners,  if 
contracted  in  making  extensions,  and  by  the  superintendent 
if  incurred  in  making  repairs. 

Sect.  15.  All  moneys  received  on  account  of  the  water 


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works  shall  be  paid  weekly,  or  oftener,  into  the  city  treas- 
ury, and  a receipt  shall  be  taken  for  the  same;  and  all 
moneys  paid  into  the  treasury  on  account  of  said  works 
shall  be  placed  to  the  credit  of  the  water  works,  which 
credits  shall  be  treated  as  an  appropriation  for  the  payment 
of  the  interest  upon  the  water  debt,  the  ordinary  expenses 
of  the  water  works  and  sewer  department,  and  whatever 
balance  shall  remain  at  the  expiration  of  the  fiscal  year 
shall  be  passed  to  the  general  fund,  excepting  five  hundred 
dollars  for  contingent  expenses,  and  shall  not  be  paid  out 
except  under  the  provisions  of  chapter  I,  section  4. 

Sect.  16.  The  rent  for  use  of  water  shall  be  payable 
semi-annually  in  advance,  on  the  first  days  of  June  and 
December  in  each  year,  except  meter  rates,  which  shall  be 
due  monthly,  or  otherwise,  as  ordered  by  the  board  of 
water  commissioners.  All  charges  for  specific  supplies,  or 
for  fractional  parts  of  a year,  shall  be  payable  in  advance 
and  before  the  water  is  let  on.  The  superintendent  shall 
notify  all  water  takers  who  are  in  arrears  one  assessment 
that  immediate  payment  is  necessary ; and  if  such  payment 
is  not  made  within  thirty  days  after  such  notice  is  given, 
the  superintendent  shall  then  immediately  shut  off  the  water 
from  the  premises  occupied  by  such  persons  until  the  assess- 
ment is  paid  in  full,  with  an  additional  charge  of  one  dollar 
to  cover  expenses. 

Sect.  17.  The  water,  sewer  and  drain  department  shall 
make  all  water  and  sewer  connections  and  furnish  and  lay 
all  pipe  and  other  materials  for  the  same,  to  the  street  line, 
for  the  following  fees: 


For  each  house  drain  to  street  line,  $9  00 

For  each  %-inch  connection  and  pipe  to  street  line,  9 00 

For  each  %-inch  connection  and  1-inch  pipe  to 

street  line,  9 50 

For  each  1-inch  connection  and  1-inch  pipe  to 

street  line,  10  00 

For  each  1-inch  connection  and  114-inch  pipe  to 
street  line, 


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For  each  l^-inch  connection  and  1^4-inch  pipe  to 

street  line,  $12  00 

In  no  case  shall  the  water  be  turned  on  or  the  soil  pipe 
used  until  the  fees  aforesaid  have  been  paid. 

Sect.  18.  I.  There  shall  be  a board  of  examiners  of 
plumbers  who  shall  be  appointed,  and  whose  duties  shall 
be  as  prescribed  by  law.  Said  board  shall  consist  of  the 
number  required  by  law  and  shall  hold  their  office  for  one 
year  or  until  their  successors  are  appointed.  Vacancies 
happening  in  said  board  for  any  reason  shall  forthwith  be 
filled  for  the  remainder  of  the  term.  Whenever  any  person, 
firm  or  corporation  registered  at  the  office  of  said  board 
of  examiners  as  required  by  law  shall  change  his  or  its 
place  of  business,  said  person,  firm  or  corporation  shall 
forthwith  send  to  said  office  a written  notice  of  such  change 
and  of  his  or  its  new  place  of  business. 

II.  There  shall  also  be  an  inspector  of  plumbing  who 
shall  be  appointed  by  the  board  of  mayor  and  aldermen, 
shall  hold  his  office  for  one  year  or  until  his  successor  is 
appointed  and  who  shall  inspect  all  plumbing  work  for 
which  permits  are  granted,  in  process  of  construction, 
alteration  or  repair,  at  any  and  all  times,  and  perform 
such  other  duties  as  are  herein  or  may  be  hereafter  pre- 
scribed and  required  by  law  or  ordinance. 

Sect.  19.  I.  On  every  street  provided  with  a common 
sewer,  the  sewage  from  each  building  shall  be  conducted 
into  the  common  sewer  and  no  privy  vault  or  cesspool  will 
be  permitted  on  any  premises  situated  on  such  street  unless 
upon  permission  of  the  board  of  health  in  writing. 

II.  No  fixture  by  and  through  which  waste  water  or 
sewage  is  used  and  carried,  shall  be  placed  in  any  building 
in  the  city  of  Keene,  except  in  accordance  with  plans  which 
shall  be  approved  by  the  inspector  or  such  person  as  said 
inspector  may  designate ; nor  shall  any  plumbing  work  be 
done  in  said  city  except  in  case  of  repair  of  leaks  without 
a permit  being  first  issued  therefor,  as  hereinafter  provided. 

III.  The  inspector  shall  issue  permits  to  do  plumbing 
work  as  herein  provided;  before  any  such  permit  shall  be 


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issued  the  applicant  shall  file  in  the  office  of  said  inspector 
plans  and  specifications  of  the  plumbing  and  drainage 
system  wherein  the  work  is  proposed  to  be  done,  showing 
in  such  detail  as  the  inspector  shall  require  the  pipes, 
tanks,  faucets,  valves  and  other  fixtures  intended  to  be 
placed  in  said  building,  and  no  permit  shall  be  issued  until 
such  plans  and  specifications  shall  have  been  approved  by 
the  inspector  or  by  such  person  as  the  inspector  may 
designate,  for  that  purpose. 

Every  permit  shall  be  issued  and  accepted  upon  the 
condition  that  it  may  be  revoked  at  any  time  by  the 
inspector ; that  the  firm  or  corporation  to  whom  the 
permit  is  issued  shall  conform  to  the  statutes  of  the  state 
and  the  ordinances  and  regulations  of  the  city  of  Keene, 
and  said  plans  and  specifications,  and  shall  indemnify  and 
save  harmless  the  said  city  of  Keene  from  any  damage  it 
may  sustain,  or  be  required  to  pay  by  reason  of  doing  the 
work  permitted,  or  by  reason  of  any  act  or  neglect  of 
himself,  or  any  of  his  employes,  relating  to  such  work,  or 
by  reason  of  any  violation  of  any  specification  in  such 
permit. 

No  person  after  receiving  a permit  shall  commence  any 
portion  of  the  work  thereby  authorized  at  an  earlier  date 
than  that  named  in  the  application  for  such  permit  with- 
out first  notifying  the  inspector  in  writing,  and  all  work 
shall  be  done  in  a thorough,  skillful  and  workmanlike 
manner.  The  plan  and  specification  stated  in  the  applica- 
tion shall  be  approved  or  rejected  within  five  days  of  the 
time  of  filing,  and  such  plans  once  approved,  shall  not  be 
altered  except  by  written  permission  from  the  inspector. 

Blank  specifications  will  be  furnished  to  architects, 
plumbers  and  others,  on  application  at  the  office  of  the 
inspector. 

IV.  Notification.  The  plumber  in  charge  of  the  work 
shall  notify  the  inspector  of  plumbing  when  the  main 
drain,  soil,  waste  or  ventilating  pipes  are  in  place  and 
before  any  fixtures  are  attached,  and  said  plumber  shall 
again  notify  said  inspector  when  the  work  is  completed 


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and  ready  for  final  inspection,  and  all  work  must  be  left 
uncovered  and  convenient  for  examination  until  inspected 
and  approved  by  the  inspector  of  plumbing. 

No  drainage  system  shall  be  considered  approved  until 
a certificate  of  approval  has  been  granted  by  said  in- 
spector. 

All  plumbing  work  shall  be  tested  in  such  manner  and 
on  such  notice  as  the  inspector  may  order.  If  the  work 
does  not  stand  the  test,  and  the  same  is  not  remedied 
within  ten  days,  the  water  shall  be  turned  off  by  order  of 
the  inspector  or  his  agent,  and  not  let  on  again  until  the 
plumbing  has  been  pronounced  satisfactory  by  the 
inspector. 

V.  Materials.  Every  soil,  waste  or  ventilating  pipe 
above  the  gfound  or  inside  or  under  the  building  shall  be 
of  metal.  Soil  pipe  shall  be  of  iron,  sound,  free  from  sand 
holes,  of  a uniform  thickness  rand  four  inches  in  diameter, 
and  waste  pipe  shall  be  of  iron,  lead  or  brass.  The  portion 
of  the  main  drain  within  the  house  walls  and  through  to 
two  feet  outside  the  cellar  wall,  shall  be  of  iron,  and  shall 
pass  through  the  walls  two  inches  clear  of  masonry  on  the 
top  of  both  sides,  to  avoid  injury  by  settlement.  Beyond 
this  point  it  shall  be  of  extra  heavy  iron  pipe  or  vitrified 
earthen  pipe  of  suitable  size,  with  a fall  of  at  least  one- 
quarter  inch  to  the  foot. 

VI.  Joints  and  Connections.  The  inspector  shall  have 
authority  to  make  such  rules  and  requirements  as  he  may 
deem  suitable  for  the  materials  and  manner  of  construction 
of  all  joints,  connections  with  soil  or  other  pipes  and 
changes  in  the  direction  of  pipes.  No  saddle  hub  will  be 
allowed  on  any  plumbing  except  when  permitted  by  the 
inspector. 

VII.  Water  Closets.  Water  closet  apartments  shall  be 
well  ventilated  and  lighted.  All  water  closets  shall  be 
furnished  with  a sufficient  supply  of  water  to  keep  them  at 
all  times  clean  and  well  flushed,  and  shall  be  supplied  from 
a special  tank,  which  shall  not  hold  less  than  five  gallons 
of  water  for  each  closet  which  it  supplies. 


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VIII.  Traps.  Each  fixture  shall  have  an  effectual  trap 
as  close  to  it  as  practical  and  approved  by  the  inspector. 

IX.  Safes,  Overflows  and  Refrigerators.  Waste  pipes 
from  safes,  and  refrigerators,  and  overflow  pipes,  from  tanks 
or  cisterns  shall  empty  over  sink,  trapped  gully  or  other- 
wise as  may  be  approved,  but  shall  not  connect  directly 
with  the  drainage  system.  No  steam  exhaust,  blow-off, 
drip  pipe  or  cellar  drain  or  rain  water  conductor  shall 
connect  with  the  sewer,  or  with  any  house  drain,  soil  pipe 
or  waste  pipe. 

X.  Cleanouts.  Suitable  cleanouts  shall  be  provided  on 
all  runs  of  horizontal  pipes,  at  such  intervals  as  the  inspec- 
tor may  order;  a cleanout  shall  be  provided  in  the  main 
drain  near  the  cellar  wall  by  means  of  a Y branch,  said 
cleanout  to  be  calked  with  the  straight  end  of  the  Y branch. 

Ventilation.  Soil  pipes  shall  be  continued  full  bore  up 
through  the  roof  in  as  direct  line  as  possible.  All  branches 
of  ten  feet  or  more  in  length  shall  be  continued  at  full  size 
through  the  roof  or  be  taken  into  the  soil  pipe  above  the 
highest  fixture.  Any  branch  less  than  four  inches  in  diam- 
eter to  be  carried  through  the  roof,  shall,  before  passing 
through  the  roof  be  enlarged  to  four  inches  in  diameter. 
All  pipes  when  carried  through  the  roof  shall  extend  two 
feet  above  the  roof,  and  when  within  fifteen  feet  of  windows 
or  other  openings  shall  extend  as  high  above  the  top  of 
said  windows  or  opening  as  the  inspector  shall  require. 
No  cap  except  a wire  basket  shall  be  fixed  to  the  top  of  a 
vent  pipe. 

When  ventilation  pipes  other  than  the  continuations  of 
the  soil  pipe  or  branches  thereof,  are  put  in,  they  shall  be 
subject  to  such  rules  as  the  inspector  may  prescribe,  as  to 
their  size,  material  and  construction  and  shall  be  so  con- 
structed as  not  to  allow  the  formation  of  a trap  and  shall 
not  be  used  as  waste  pipes.  No  soil,  waste  or  ventilating 
pipe,  except  a local  vent  pipe,  shall  be  connected  with  a 
chimney.  No  brick,  earthemware  or  sheet  metal  pipes  shall 
be  used  for  ventilating  a soil  or  waste  pipe. 

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pipes  shall  be  concentrated  as  much  as  possible,  and  on  the 
completion  of  the  work  shall  be  left  readily  accessible  and 
in  view  as  much  as  possible. 

Drain,  soil,  waste  and  ventilating  pipes  should  be  exposed 
to  view  for  ready  inspection  at  all  times,  and  for  conven- 
ience in  repairing.  When  necessarily  placed  within  partitions 
or  recesses  in  walls,  soil  or  waste  pipes  shall  be  covered 
with  woodwork  so  fashioned  with  screws  as  to  be  readily 
removed.  In  no  case  shall  they  be  absolutely  inaccessible. 
Any  house  drain  put  in  and  covered  over  without  due  notice 
to  the  inspector  must  be  uncovered  for  inspection  at  the 
request  or  direction  of  said  inspector. 

XII.  Workmanship.  The  whole  drainage  and  plumbing 
work  in  buildings,  shall  be  executed  by  registered  or 
licensed  plumbers. 

XIII.  Lead  and  cast  iron  pipes  shall  be  of  such  weight 
per  foot  as  the  inspector  may  deem  necessary  and  he  may 
order  extra  heavy  pipe  to  be  used  in  such  places  as  in  his 
judgment  it  is  required.  He  shall  also  make  rules  for  the 
material,  size  and  number  of  supports,  hangers  and  clamps 
for  pipes. 

XIV.  Every  kitchen  sink  of  an  eating  house,  hotel, 
restaurant,  or  other  public  cooking  establishment,  shall 
have  a grease  trap  placed  as  near  as  practicable  to  the 
sink  and  easily  accessible  for  cleaning. 

XV.  Old  house  sewers  or  drains  can  be  used  for  new 
houses  only  when  found  by  an  inspector  to  conform  in  all 
respects  to  the  foregoing  regulations  governing  new  sew- 
ers and  drains.  All  drains  now  in,  as  well  as  soil  and 
waste  pipes,  shall  be  reconstructed  whenever  in  the  opinion 
of  the  inspector  it  may  be  necessary. 

Cesspools.  Every  building  upon  a street  or  passageway 
not  provided  with  a public  sewer  shall  be  connected,  when 
required  by  the  board  of  health,  with  a proper  cesspool 
with  a capacity  to  contain  at  least  seventy-five  cubic  feet 
below  the  inlet  pipe,  and  located  at  least  twenty  feet  from 
any  building  and  three  feet  from  adjoining  property,  and 
shall  be  suitably  vented,  and  no  cesspool  or  vault  shall  be 


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constructed  without  a permit  obtained  from  the  board  of 
health.  In  such  houses  the  sink  shall  be  provided  with  a 
four-inch  round  trap,  where  a sink  only  is  used.  Where  a 
water  closet  is  used,  the  plumbing  in  such  house  shall  con- 
form to  the  ordinances  relating  to  plumbing  in  the  city 
of  Keene. 

Sect.  20.  All  stop  boxes  placed  in  highways  of  this 
city,  with  the  upper  end  at  the  surface  of  the  street,  shall 
be  covered  with  a suitable  iron  cover  with  a drop  flange 
to  properly  fit  the  inside  of  said  boxes,  of  not  less  than 
five  inches  in  depth,  the  whole  to  be  of  such  weight  and 
construction  as  not  to  be  displaced  by  the  passage  over 
them  of  animals  or  carriages.  All  gas  and  water  boxes, 
sewer  manholes  and  flush  tanks,  with  covers  designed  to 
be  at  the  surface  of  the  public  highways  of  this  city,  which 
may  have  been  thrown  up  by  the  frost,  or  from  which  the 
gravel  has  been  worn  away,  shall  be  at  once  brought  to 
grade,  either  by  the  replacing  of  gravel,  or  by  the  sinking 
or  shortening  of  such  boxes,  and  kept  in  such  relation  to 
the  streets  at  all  seasons  of  the  year;  and  it  shall  be  the 
duty  of  the  commissioners  to  see  that  the  boxes  and  covers, 
whether  belonging  to  the  city  or  individuals,  in  the  public 
highways  of  Keene,  are  made  to  conform  to  the  require- 
ments of  this  ordinance,  and  kept  in  such  condition. 


CHAPTER  VI. 

CEMETERIES. 

Section  1.  The  joint  standing  committee  on  burial 
grounds  shall  have  the  general  care  and  superintendence  of 
all  public  cemeteries  in  the  city  of  Keene.  Said  committee 
shall  have  full  power  to  direct  the  superintendent  in  the 
discharge  of  all  the  duties  of  his  office.  They  shall,  with 
the  superintendent,  appraise  the  lots  in  all  the  cemeteries 
that  are  unsold,  and  have  the  price  marked  upon  a plan 
that  shall  be  kept  in  the  custody  of  the  superintendent. 

Sect.  2.  All  grades  and  improvements  of  avenues, 


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pathways  or  grounds  of  said  cemeteries,  shall  be  under  the 
direction  of  the  committee  and  superintendent,  who  shall 
also  have  power  to  enforce  all  the  laws  of  the  state  in 
relation  to  cemeteries. 

Sect.  3.  In  the  month  of  January,  annually,  or  when- 
ever a vacancy  shall  occur,  there  shall  be  chosen  by  the 
city  councils  in  joint  convention,  a superintendent  of  public 
cemeteries,  who,  in  addition  to  the  duties  before  prescribed 
in  this  ordinance  shall  perform  the  duties  of  sexton.  He 
shall  dispose  of  vacant  lots  at  their  appraisal,  by  deed 
signed  by  the  mayor  under  the  corporate  seal  of  the  city; 
but  in  no  instance  shall  possession,  or  a deed  for  a lot, 
be  given  until  the  whole  amount  of  the  appraisal  is  paid 
or  satisfactory  security  given  for  payment.  If  payment  is 
not  made  within  ninety  days  after  the  selection  of  a lot  by 
a purchaser,  the  lot  shall  be  subject  to  sale  or  re-appraisal 
as  other  unsold  lots.  He  shall  see  that  all  cemeteries  are 
kept  properly  inclosed  and  in  a neat  and  orderly  condition. 
He  shall  see  that  all  lots  for  the  care  of  which  special  funds 
are  held  in  trust  by  the  city,  are  kept  in  as  good  condition 
as  the  interest  upon  such  funds  will  permit.  He  shall  do 
such  work  upon  any  given  lot  as  he  may  be  paid  for  doing, 
by  any  one  interested  therein.  He  shall  superintend  and 
execute  such  improvements  and  labor  upon  the  cemeteries 
as  the  said  committee  may  order.  He  shall  have  the  power 
under  the  direction  of  said  committee  to  employ  all  such 
labor  as  may  be  necessary  in  the  discharge  of  his  duties, 
and  shall  file  each  week  in  the  office  of  the  city  clerk  a pay- 
roll for  the  preceding  week,  approved  by  said  superintendent, 
setting  forth  the  names  of  all  persons  hired,  the  length  of 
time  each  has  been  employed  and  the  amount  of  the  com- 
pensation of  each  employe.  He  shall  collect  and  receive 
all  moneys  pertaining  to  his  office  as  superintendent  and 
sexton,  or  paid  by  individuals  for  special  work,  and  shall 
deposit  the  same  with  the  city  treasurer,  on  the  last  day  of 
each  month,  taking  his  receipt  therefor,  which  shall  be 
treated  as  a fund  for  the  payment  of  all  bills  which  may  be 
authorized  by  said  superintendent  on  account  of  the  ceme- 


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teries.  He  shall  pay  no  bills  of  any  kind.  Under  the  direc- 
tion of  said  committee  he  shall  have  the  power  to  contract 
for  such  materials  and  supplies  as  it  may  order,  and  all  bills 
against  the  city  on  account  of  cemeteries,  except  the  weekly 
pay-rolls,  shall  be  approved  by  the  superintendent  and  the 
said  committee,  and  when  duly  audited  shall  be  paid.  He 
shall  receive  in  addition  to  the  salary  provided  by  ordinance 
the  sum  of  one  dollar  and  seventy-five  cents  per  day  for  ser- 
vices actually  rendered  as  superintendent  and  sexton,  and 
the  sum  of  one  hundred  dollars  per  year  for  the  use  of  a 
team.  He  shall  file  his  account  for  personal  services  and 
use  of  horse,  with  the  city  clerk  on  the  first  day  of  each 
month,  which  shall  be  approved  by  the  said  committee,  and 
when  audited  shall  be  paid,  and  at  the  same  time  he  shall 
file  an  itemized  statement  of  all  sums  received  by  him  dur- 
ing the  preceding  month  and  a voucher  that  the  same  have 
been  deposited  with  the  city  treasurer. 

Sect.  4.  The  superintendent  shall  furnish  such  bonds 
as  the  mayor  and  aldermen  may  direct. 

Sect.  5.  The  name  “Woodland  Cemetery”  shall  in- 
clude and  cover,  not  only  the  cemetery  known  by  that  name, 
but  also  the  land  acquired  by  the  city,  of  the  heirs  of  the 
late  Thomas  M.  Edwards  and  of  M.  J.  Sherman,  and  the 
name  “ Greenlawn  Cemetery”  shall  include  all  the  land 
conveyed  to  the  city  by  the  Greenlawn  cemetery  corpo- 
ration. 

Sect.  6.  The  provisions  of  chapter  40,  New  Hampshire 
Laws  1899,  regulating  the  investment  of  certain  trust 
funds  held  by  towns  and  cities,  are  hereby  adopted. 


CHAPTER  VII. 

CITY  MESSENGER. 

Section  1.  There  shall  be  elected  by  the  city  councils, 
in  the  month  of  January,  annually,  or  whenever  a vacancy 
may  occur,  a city  messenger,  who  may  be  removed  at  the 
pleasure  of  the  city  councils.  It  shall  be  his  duty  to  receive, 


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deliver  and  execute  all  notifications,  summonses  and  pre- 
cepts issued  by  the  mayor,  the  president  of  the  common 
council,  the  city  councils,  or  either  branch  thereof,  or  by  any 
committee  of  the  same,  or  by  the  health  commissioners,  and 
make  due  return  thereof.  He  shall  prepare  and  arrange  the 
rooms  in  which  the  common  council  and  the  board  of  aider- 
men  shall  hold  their  sessions,  and  under  the  direction  of  the 
proper  officer,  provide  fuel,  lights,  and  such  other  things  as 
may  be  necessary  for  the  accommodation  of  both  branches 
of  the  city  councils,  or  any  committee  thereof. 

Sect.  2.  He  shall  receive  and  deliver  all  notifications  to 
officers  elected  by  the  city  councils,  or  by  the  board  of  aider- 
men,  and  he  shall  deliver  all  notifications  to  committees  upon 
the  request  of  the  city  clerk,  the  clerk  of  the  common  coun- 
cil, or  the  chairman  of  any  committee.  He  shall  have  the 
superintendence  of  the  city  hall,  and  all  other  rooms  belong- 
ing to  the  city  in  said  building,  except  the  stores  under  said 
hall,  and  see  that  they  are  kept  in  good  condition.  He  shall 
also  have  control  of  the  bill  boards  at  the  entrance  of  city 
hall,  and  no  posters  shall  be  placed  thereon  without  his 
permission. 

Sect.  3.  He  shall  render  an  account  of  the  receipts 
arising  from  the  letting  of  the  hall,  to  the  mayor  and  aider- 
men  at  the  close  of  each  month,  or  oftener  if  required,  and 
such  sum  as  may  be  in  his  hands  he  shall  pay  to  the  city 
treasurer  and  take  his  receipt  therefor,  and  deliver  such 
receipt  to  the  city  clerk. 


CHAPTER  VIII. 

FIRE  DEPARTMENT. 

Section  1.  There  shall  be  appointed  by  the  board  of 
mayor  and  aldermen,  in  the  month  of  January,  annually,  a 
chief  engineer  and  assistant  engineers,  not  exceeding  five  in 
number,  to  hold  their  offices  one  year,  or  until  others  are 
appointed  and  qualified  to  fill  their  places ; and  they  shall 
constitute  the  board  of  engineers,  and  perform  all  the  duties, 


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and  exercise  all  the  powers  of  firewards,  provided,  however, 
that  they  shall  be  subject  to  removal  at  any  time  by  the 
mayor  and  aldermen,  who  shall  have  power  to  fill  vacancies. 

Sect.  2.  The  by-laws  adopted  by  the  board  of  engi- 
neers and  all  rules  and  regulations  that  are  now  in  force 
shall  be  considered  as  continuing  in  force,  and  the  board 
shall  have  power  to  make  such  other  rules  and  by-laws  as 
may  be  deemed  necessary,  provided  they  shall  not  be  repug- 
nant to,  or  inconsistent  with,  the  laws  of  the  state  or  the 
ordinances  of  the  city. 

Sect.  3.  Each  member  of  every  company  in  the  fire 
department  shall  receive  for  his  services  at  the  rate  of  seven- 
teen dollars  per  year  in  addition  to  the  sum  allowed  by  law  ; 
but  no  member  shall  be  paid  for  less  than  three  months’ 
service,  unless  sooner  discharged  from  his  company  by  the 
proper  authority  for  cause  other  than  his  own  request,  nor 
unless  he  shall  have  performed  his  duties  in  a manner  satis- 
factory to  the  company  officer,  and  responded  to  all  calls 
made  upon  him,  or  given  satisfactory  excuse  for  any  failure 
to  do  so. 

Sect.  4.  The  foreman  of  each  company  in  the  fire 
department  shall  report  to  the  city  clerk  at  the  expiration 
of  each  quarter,  the  names  of  all  men  who  have  been  active 
members  of  his  company  during  the  quarter,  or  any  part 
thereof,  giving  date  of  all  discharges,  and  of  all  elections 
of  new  members;  and  he  shall,  annually,  in  September, 
compute  the  pay  of  each  member  according  to  the  preceding 
section,  and  make  oath  to  the  correctness  of  said  reports 
and  pay-roll  thereon. 

Sect.  5.  The  city  clerk  shall  furnish  to  each  foreman 
proper  blanks  for  his  reports  and  pay-rolls. 

Sect.  6.  No  person  shall  hereafter  erect  or  cause  to  be 
erected,  move  or  cause  to  be  moved,  enlarge  or  cause  to 
be  enlarged,  any  wooden  building,  or  set  up  or  cause  to  be 
set  up,  or  used,  any  steam  engine  in  any  building  within 
the  limits  of  the  city,  mentioned  in  the  following  section, 
without  consent  of  the  board  of  mayor  and  aldermen,  to 
be  first  had  and  obtained  after  hearing  of  all  parties  in 


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interest,  duly  notified  by  public  notice  posted  at  the  door 
of  the  city  hall  building,  at  least  fourteen  days  before  the 
day  of  hearing,  and  by  further  notice  given  to  or  left  at 
the  last  and  usual  place  of  abode  of  the  owner  or 
occupants  of  the  land  adjoining  the  premises,  where  license 
is  asked  under  this  chapter. 

Sect.  7.  The  limits  of  the  fire  precinct  hereby  consti- 
tuted shall  be  as  follows : beginning  at  the  northeast 
corner  of  the  Cheshire  railroad  freight  house ; thence  north- 
erly to  and  on  west  line  of  St.  James  street  to  West  street; 
thence  on  east  line  of  land  of  Mrs.  C.  L.  Kingsbury  to 
Winter  street,  and  on  west  line  of  Middle  street  to  Summer 
street;  thence  easterly  on  Summer  street  to  Court  street, 
and  southerly  on  east  line  of  Court  street  to  Vernon  street; 
thence  easterly  on  north  line  of  Vernon  street  to  Washing- 
ton street,  and  on  south  line  of  Spring  street  to  northeast 
corner  of  George  R.  Dinsmoor’s  land ; thence  southerly  on 
east  line  of  said  Dinsmoor’s  land  to  southeast  corner  of 
same;  thence  westerly  on  line  of  said  Dinsmoor’s  land  to 
northwest  corner  of  Josiah  T.  Colony’s  land,  and  south 
from  said  corner  on  west  line  of  said  Colony’s  land  to 
Roxbury  street;  thence  easterly  on  south  line  of  Roxbury 
street  to  Norway  avenue,  and  southerly  on  west  line  of 
Norway  avenue  to  Church  street,  and  on  east  line  of 
Ninety-third  street  to  south  line  of  Railroad  street ; thence 
westerly  on  said  line  of  said  Railroad  street  to  Main 
street,  and  westerly  from  said  Main  street  to  the  point  of 
beginning. 


CHAPTER  IX. 

ELECTRIC  FIRE  ALARM. 

Section  1.  There  shall  be  appointed  by  the  board  of 
mayor  and  aldermen,  in  the  month  of  January,  annually,  or 
when  a vacancy  exists,  a superintendent  of  fire  alarm,  who 
shall  hold  his  office  for  one  year,  or  until  his  removal,  or  the 
appointment  of  another  in  his  stead.  The  superintendent  of 
fire  alarm  shall  have  the  care  and  general  supervision  of  all 


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lines  and  apparatus  connected  with  the  electric  fire  alarm 
circuit  belonging  to  the  city.  In  the  use  of  the  alarm  and 
sounding  of  calls  thereon  he  shall  be  governed  by  the  rules 
and  regulations  established  by  the  engineers  or  by  their 
order,  unless  otherwise  instructed  by  the  mayor  and  aldermen. 

Sect.  2.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  superintendent  to 
keep  the  circuit  and  apparatus  in  good  working  order,  at  all 
times,  and  to  promptly  repair  or  renew  all  work  or  inter- 
ruptions to  the  circuit  or  the  apparatus  connected  therewith. 
He  shall  see  that  all  electric  or  other  wires  are  kept  at  a safe 
distance  from  the  fire  alarm  circuit.  In  cutting  or  remov- 
ing such  wires  or  other  obstructions,  he  shall  act  under  the 
directions  of  the  mayor  and  aldermen.  All  material  and 
supplies  needed  for  repairs  and  maintainance  of  the  fire 
alarm  he  shall  procure  through  the  committee  on  fire  depart- 
ment, who  shall  see  that  proper  supplies  for  ordinary  repairs 
and  maintainance  are  kept  on  hand  by  the  city.  He  shall 
carefully  inspect  all  portions  of  the  fire  alarm  circuit  and 
apparatus  in  the  months  of  April  and  September,  annually, 
and  report  all  repairs  or  changes  needed,  to  the  committee 
on  fire  department. 

Sect.  3.  He  shall  inspect  each  fire  alarm  box  and  test 
the  same  as  often  as  once  in  every  month,  keeping  a record 
of  all  such  tests  with  the  date  and  number  of  the  box  tested. 
He  shall  make  sure  that  all  boxes  are  in  order  after  severe 
storms.  He  shall  cause  the  circuit  to  be  used  on  Saturday 
of  each  week,  and  a box  to  be  pulled  in  at  noon,  as  pro- 
vided by  the  regulations.  The  boxes  to  be  pulled  alter- 
nately, and  a record  kept  of  the  same. 

Sect.  4.  Whoever  shall  maliciously  interfere  or  tamper 
with  any  of  the  boxes  or  wires  connected  with  the  fire 
alarm,  or  shall  intentionally  ring  in  any  false  alarm,  shall 
be  punished  by  a fine  of  not  more  than  twenty  dollars  and 
the  costs  of  prosecution. 

Sect.  5.  Any  person  or  persons  giving  information 
which  shall  lead  to  the  detection  and  conviction  of  any 
person  or  persons  violating  the  preceding  section,  shall  be 
entitled  to  one-half  of  the  fine  imposed. 


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CHAPTER  X. 

CITY  SOLICITOR. 

Section  1.  There  shall  be  elected  by  the  city  councils 
in  joint  convention  and  by  joint  ballot,  in  the  month  of 
January  in  each  year,  or  whenever  any  vacancy  may  exist, 
a solicitor  for  the  city  of  Keene,  who  may  be  removed  at 
the  pleasure  of  the  city  councils. 

Sect.  2.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  city  solicitor  to 
draft  all  obligations  or  legal  instruments  that  may  be 
required  of  him  by  any  ordinance  or  order  of  the  mayor 
and  aldermen  or  common  council,  or  which,  by  any  such 
ordinance  heretofore  passed  or  may  hereafter  be  passed  by 
the  city  councils,  are  requisite  and  necessary  or  may  become 
requisite  and  necessary  to  be  done  and  made  between  the 
city  pf  Keene  in  its  corporate  capacity  and  any  person 
contracting  with  the  city,  and  which  by  law,  usage  or 
agreement,  the  said  city  is  to  be  at  the  expense  of  drawing ; 
also  to  commence  and  prosecute  all  suits  that  may  be 
brought  by  order  of  the  city,  for  or  on  account  of  any 
estate,  right,  claim,  privilege,  or  demand  of  the  city;  also 
to  appear  in  defense,  in  all  actions  or  suits  brought  against 
the  city  or  its  officers  in  their  official  capacity  wherein  the 
rights,  estate,  privileges,  ordinances  or  acts  of  the  city  or 
any  branch  thereof  may  be  brought  in  question,  before  any 
court  in  this  state,  and  shall  do  all  and  every  other  pro- 
fessional act  which  may  be  required  of  him  by  the  city 
government  or  by  any  committee  of  the  city  councils  or 
either  board  thereof;  and  when  required  by  the  board  of 
mayor  and  aldermen  or  common  council  or  any  committee 
of  the  city  councils  or  either  branch  thereof,  he  shall  furnish 
a written  opinion  of  any  legal  question  or  subject  that 
may  be  submitted  to  him,  and  he  shall  also  at  all  times 
furnish  legal  advice  to  any  officer  of  the  city  who  may 
require  his  opinion  upon  any  subject  touching  the  duties 
incumbent  on  such  officer.  He  shall,  when  requested  by 
the  mayor  or  city  marshal,  commence  and  prosecute  before 
the  police  court  any  suit  or  complaint  that  may  be  brought 


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by  the  order  of  either  of  said  officers  for  the  violation  of 
any  ordinance  of  the  city  or  law  of  the  state. 

Sect.  3.  In  addition  to  his  salary  he  shall  be  entitled 
to  receive  a reasonable  compensation  for  service  rendered 
in  connection  with  suits  in  the  supreme  court  in  which  the 
city  is  a party,  and  also  as  a justice  of  the  peace  for 
complaints  and  warrants  the  customary  fees. 


CHAPTER  XI. 

CITY  PHYSICIAN. 

Section  1.  There  shall  be  elected  annually  by  the  city 
councils,  in  convention  and  by  joint  ballot,  a city  physician, 
who  shall  hold  his  office  for  the  term  of  one  year,  unless 
removed  by  the  city  councils. 

Sect.  2.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  city  physician  to 
attend,  under  the  general  direction  of  the  overseer  of  the 
poor,  upon  all  sick  paupers  and  patients  under  the  care  of 
the  city  authorities,  and  to  report  annually,  on  or  before  the 
first  day  of  December,  to  the  city  councils,  a list  of  deaths 
of  the  previous  year;  stating  the  age,  sex,  and  disease  of 
the  person  deceased;  to  give  to  either  branch  of  the  city 
councils,  or  to  any  committee  thereof,  all  such  professional 
advice  and  counsel  as  they  may  require  of  him ; to  vaccinate 
all  scholars  of  the  public  ^schools  who  may  be  sent  to  him 
by  the  school  committee  for  that  purpose,  free  of  charge, 
and  generally  to  perform  all  such  professional  services  as 
may  be  reasonably  required  of  him  by  the  mayor  and 
aldermen,  city  councils  and  board  of  health. 

Sect.  3.  He  shall  attend  upon  all  cases  of  disease,  and 
furnish  all  needed  medicines  at  his  own  expense,  and  per- 
form all  the  professional  services  that  may  be  required  in 
the  police  station  or  elsewhere  by  the  city  marshal.  He 
shall  keep  a true  record  of  the  names  of  all  patients,  and 
date  of  visits,  and  present  the  same  to  the  overseer  of  the 
poor  once  a month. 


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Sect.  4.  He  shall  deliver  to  his  successor  in  office  all 
papers,  records  and  memoranda  pertaining  to  the  duties  of 
his  office. 


CHAPTER  XII. 

HEALTH  COMMISSIONERS. 

Section  1.  The  city  councils  shall,  in  the  month  of 
January  in  each  year,  and  whenever  any  vacancy  shall 
occur,  elect  by  joint  ballot  and  in  joint  convention,  three  per- 
sons, who  shall  be  styled  health  commissioners,  and  who 
shall  each  of  them  be  invested  with  all  the  powers  granted 
by  the  laws  of  the  state,  to  execute  its  laws  and  the  ordi- 
nances of  the  city  made  for  the  preservation  of  the  health 
of  said  city. 

Sect.  2.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  health  commis- 
sioners, and  each  of  them  within  the  city,  to  inquire  into 
all  nuisances  and  other  causes  of  danger  to  the  public 
health,  and  in  this  respect  to  enforce  the  laws  of  the  state 
and  the  ordinances  of  the  city,  that  the  health  of  the  peo- 
ple may  be  carefully  protected,  and  to  see  that  all  laws 
and  ordinances  relating  to  the  interment  and  disinterment 
of  the  dead  are  faithfully  executed. 

Sect.  3.  No  person  shall  place,  or  leave  or  cause  to  be 
placed  or  left  in  or  near  any  dwelling  house,  street,  alley 
or  public  place,  any  substance  that  is  or  is  liable  to  be- 
come putrid  or  offensive,  or  injurious  to  the  public  health. 

Sect.  4.  No  person  shall  throw,  or  cause  to  be  thrown, 
any  animal  substance  into  the  water  of  Beaver  brook,  so 
called,  or  allow  any  sink  water,  or  any  substance  that  is 
or  may  become  offensive  or  injurious  to  the  public  health, 
to  flow  or  be  forced  into  said  stream. 

Sect.  5.  Whenever  any  person  is  convalescent  from 
any  contagious  disease,  or  any  person  or  persons  have  been 
exposed  to  any  contagious  disease  so  that  in  the  judgment 
of  the  health  commissioners  it  would  be  dangerous  to  the 
health  of  the  people  to  allow  such  person  or  persons  to  go 
into  the  streets  or  public  places  of  the  city,  the  health 


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commissioners  may  order  such  person  or  persons  to  refrain 
from  going  into  any  street  or  public  place  until  such  time 
as  in  the  opinion  of  the  health  commissioners  no  danger 
would  result  from  so  doing. 

Sect.  6.  Any  person  who  shall  violate  any  of  the  pro- 
visions of  this  chapter,  or  shall  disobey  the  orders  of  the 
health  commissioners,  made  agreeably  to  the  preceding  sec- 
tion, shall  be  fined  not  exceeding  twenty  dollars. 


CHAPTER  XIII. 

ASSESSORS  OF  TAXES  AND  OVERSEER  OF  THE  POOR. 

Section  1.  There  shall  be  a board  of  assessors  of 
taxes  consisting  of  three  members,  who  shall  have  all  the 
power  and  authority  of  such  officers  prescribed  by  the  Pub- 
lic Statutes,  one  of  whom  shall  be  elected  in  the  month  of 
January,  each  year,  by  the  city  councils  in  joint  convention, 
by  ballot  and  major  vote,  for  the  term  of  three  years  and 
until  a successor  has  been  elected  and  qualified.  And  an 
assistant  assessor  shall  be  elected  by  said  councils  in  said 
manner  in  the  month  of  March,  provided  such  assistant  is 
needed. 

Sect.  2.  The  assessors  shall  distribute  the  blank  inven- 
tories at  the  time  they  examine  and  appraise  the  property 
to  be  taxed. 

Sect.  3.  Whenever  a vacancy  shall  occur  in  said  board, 
by  death,  resignation,  removal,  or  from  other  cause,  the  city 
councils  shall  elect,  in  like  manner,  another  to  serve  out  the 
unexpired  term.  The  removal  of  an  assessor  from  one  ward 
to  another  shall  not  affect  his  right  to  hold  said  office. 

Sect.  4.  The  city  councils  in  joint  convention,  by 
ballot  and  major  vote,  shall  elect,  in  the  month  of  January, 
each  year,  one  overseer  of  the  poor,  for  the  term  of  one 
year,  and  till  a successor  shall  have  been  elected  and  quali- 
fied. Any  vacancy  in  said  office  shall  be  filled  in  like 
manner. 


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CHAPTER  XIV. 

COLLECTOR  OF  TAXES  AND  WATER  ASSESSMENTS. 

Section  1.  There  shall  be  appointed  annually,  in  the 
month  of  May,  by  the  board  of  mayor  and  aldermen,  a 
collector  of  taxes  for  said  city,  who  shall  have  all  the 
powers  and  perform  all  the  duties  prescribed  for  such  officer 
by  the  Public  Statutes,  including  the  collection  of  the  10  per 
cent,  interest  charge  provided  for  in  section  8,  of  chapter  59, 
of  the  said  statutes,  and  shall,  on  or  before  October  1st  of 
the  year  following  his  appointment,  make  a full  settlement 
and  payment  with  and  to  the  city  of  all  the  taxes  committed 
to  him  for  collection.  He  shall,  in  addition  to  such  duties, 
collect  all  water  assessments  which  shall  be  committed  to 
him  for  collection  by  the  superintendent  of  water  works  and 
sewers,  and  keep  a separate  account  of  all  such  collections 
and  deposit  the  same  with  the  city  treasurer,  taking  a sepa- 
rate receipt  therefor.  He  shall  observe  such  rules  and 
regulations  in  the  collection  of  said  assessments  as  the  board 
of  commissioners  shall  make,  and  shall  settle  his  account  of 
such  collection  with  said  board  once  in  three  months,  and 
oftener,  if  they  request  it. 


CHAPTER  XV. 

PUBLIC  LIBRARY. 

Whereas  the  Keene  Public  Library  Association  has  voted 
“that  it  is  expedient  to  surrender  to  the  city  of  Keene  the 
shares  and  all  other  property  belonging  to  the  Keene  Public 
Library  Association  whenever  the  city  shall  decide  to  accept 
the  same,  and  to  keep  the  library  in  suitable  apartments,  in 
good  condition  for  the  use  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  city, 
under  suitable  regulations,  and  for  the  first  five  years  expend 
a sum  not  less  than  three  hundred  dollars  per  annum,  and 
thereafterwards  a sum  not  less  than  five  hundred  dollars  per 
annum  for  the  purchase  and  repair  of  books  for  the  library ; 
said  sums  to  be  raised  and  expended  as  above  until  such 
time  as  the  library  shall  have  an  income  of  not  less  than  one 


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thousand  dollars  per  annum  derived  from  other  sources the 
said  city  of  Keene  hereby  accepts  the  surrender  of  said 
shares  and  property  upon  the  terms,  conditions  and  limi- 
tations expressed  in  said  vote,  and  hereby  agrees  faith- 
fully to  comply  with  and  perform  said  terms  and  condi- 
tions. 

Section  1.  The  control,  government  and  management 
of  the  public  library  and  the  buildings  and  grounds  con- 
nected therewith  shall  be  committed  to  a board  of  trus- 
tees to  consist  of  twelve  persons,  who  shall  serve  without 
compensation,  six  of  whom  shall  be  known  as  permanent 
trustees  and  be  selected  in  accordance  with  the  terms  of 
the  gift  to  the  city  of  Keene  by  Edward  C.  Thayer  under 
date  of  May  31st,  1898;  of  the  remaining  six  trustees 
(three  of  whom  may  be  ladies)  two  shall  be  appointed  by 
the  city  councils  during  the  month  of  January  annually, 
for  the  term  of  three  years.  Any  vacancy  in  said  six  trus- 
tees chosen  by  the  city  councils  shall  be  filled  by  said  coun- 
cils for  the  unexpired  term. 

Sect.  2.  The  board  of  trustees  may  establish  such 
rules  and  regulations  for  the  government  of  their  body 
and  the  management  of  the  public  library  as  they  may 
deem  advisable.  They  shall  see  that  suitable  rooms  are 
provided  for  the  use  of  the  library,  and  the  other  purposes 
designated  in  said  gift,  shall  purchase  all  books  and  cer- 
tify to  all  bills  relating  to  the  same  and  to  the  ordinary 
expenses  of  the  library,  and  shall  make  an  annual  report 
to  the  board  of  mayor  and  aldermen  on  the  first  day  of 
December  in  each  year  of  the  condition  of  the  library,  the 
amount  expended  for  books,  repairs,  salaries,  rent,  inci- 
dental and  ordinary  expenses,  and  such  other  matters  re- 
lating to  the  library  as  they  may  consider  of  general  in- 
terest. 

Sect.  3.  Nothing  in  this  ordinance  shall  affect  the 
tenure  of  officers  heretofore  chosen. 

Sect.  4.  The  board  of  trustees  shall  have  no  power  to 
pledge  the  credit  of  the  city  for  any  debts  that  they  may 
incur,  but  they  are  hereby  authorized  to  expend  such  sums 


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of  money  as  may  be  from  time  to  time  appropriated  by 
the  city  councils  for  the  benefit  of  the  public  library.  All 
sums  of  money  arising  from  the  sale  of  catalogues  shall  be 
added  to  the  appropriation  annually  made  for  the  purchase 
of  books  and  used  by  the  trustees  for  that  purpose,  and 
all  sums  of  money  arising  from  the  collection  of  fines  may 
be  used  by  the  trustees  for  the  printing  of  lists  of  new 
books  and  the  balance  thereof  shall  be  added  to  the  appro- 
priation for  the  purchase  of  books. 


CHAPTER  XVI. 

REGULATING  THE  USE  OF  THE  PUBLIC  WAYS. 

Section  1.  All  persons  engaged  in  teaming  upon  the 
public  ways  of  the  city,  using  chains,  clevises,  brakes  or  any 
other  device  or  appliance  for  retarding  the  speed  of  vehicles, 
the  working  of  which  will  result  in  digging  up,  destroying 
or  rendering  said  public  ways  defective  by  causing  ruts  in 
the  road-bed,  shall  while  using  such  chains,  clevises,  brakes, 
or  other  device  for  the  purpose  aforesaid,  keep  their  vehicles 
to  the  right  of  the  centre  of  the  traveled  part  of  the 
highway. 

Sect.  2.  No  person  shall  use  any  of  the  appliances 
above  named  except  as  such  use  shall  be  rendered  reason- 
ably necessary  by  the  weight  of  the  load  carried  or  the  grade 
of  the  road.  Whoever  shall  violate  any  of  the  provisions  of 
this  ordinance  shall  be  punished  by  a fine  not  exceeding 
twenty  dollars,  one-half  of  the  fine  imposed  to  be  given  to 
the  person  who  shall  make  complaint  and  furnish  evidence 
sufficient  for  the  conviction  of  the  offender. 

Sect.  3.  No  person  shall  put  or  place,  or  cause  to  be 
put  or  placed,  within  the  limits  of  any  street,  lane,  alley  or 
highway,  or  other  public  place  in  the  city,  any  house  dirt, 
ashes,  garbage,  shreds,  shavings,  filth,  suds,  offal,  or  other 
rubbish,  except  in  such  places  and  in  such  manner  as  the 
superintendent  of  streets  may  provide  and  prescribe. 

Sect.  4.  Three  or  more  persons  shall  not  stand  in  a 
group  or  near  each  other  on  any  foot  or  sidewalk,  so  as  to 


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obstruct  a free  passage  for  foot  passengers  ; and  any  person 
or  persons  obstructing  the  foot  or  sidewalks  shall  move  on 
immediately  after  a request  is  made  by  any  police  officer  or 
watchman.  No  person  or  persons  shall  sit,  stand,  or  lounge 
in  or  about  the  doors  of  passage-ways  to  any  store,  church 
or  public  building,  office,  saloon,  shop,  dwelling  house  or 
other  tenement,  except  the  owners  or  tenants  thereof,  after 
having  been  requested  by  the  owner  or  occupant,  or  any 
police  officer  to  depart  therefrom. 

Sect.  5.  No  person  shall  wantonly  injure  or  deface  any 
building,  fence,  wall,  sign  board,  bill  board,  post,  or  lamp 
or  lantern  thereon,  or  shall  wantonly  cut  or  injure  any  tree 
standing  in  any  street,  highway  or  public  place,  or  shall 
rob  any  garden  or  field  of  fruit  or  vegetables,  or  shall, 
without  lawful  permission,  climb  on  or  over  any  fence  of 
any  garden  or  yard. 

Sect.  6.  No  person  shall  occupy  any  street,  lane,  or 
alley  of  the  city  for  the  purpose  of  selling  goods  or  anything 
at  auction  or  otherwise,  without  first  obtaining  permission 
from  the  mayor,  and  paying  therefor  such  a sum  as  may 
be  required,  for  the  use  of  the  city. 

Sect.  7.  The  tenant  or  occupant,  or  if  there  be  uo  ten- 
ant, the  owner  of  any  building  or  lot  of  land  bordering  on 
any  street  where  there  is  a sidewalk  of  brick,  stone,  or  con- 
crete, shall  cause  all  snow  to  be  removed  from  such  sidewalk 
adjoining  his  premises,  within  six  hours  after  the  snow  shall 
have  ceased  to  fall,  if  in  the  day  time,  or  before  two  of  the 
clock  of  the  afternoon  next  succeeding,  if  the  snow  shall 
have  ceased  to  fall  in  the  night. 

Sect.  8.  Any  person  violating  any  of  the  provisions  of 
the  foregoing  sections  shall  be  punished  by  a fine  not 
exceeding  twenty  dollars. 


CHAPTER  XVII. 

NUMBERING  OF  BUILDINGS. 

Section  1.  The  board  of  mayor  and  aldermen  shall, 
from  time  to  time,  as  the  convenience  of  the  public  may 


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require,  cause  numbers  in  regular  series,  to  be  fixed  to  or 
inscribed  on  all  dwelling  houses  and  other  buildings  or  parts 
of  buildings,  fronting  on  any  street,  alley,  or  public  place  in 
said  city,  and  shall  also  determine  the  form,  size,  and 
material  of  such  numbers,  and  the  mode,  place,  succession 
aud  order  of  inscribing  and  affixing  them  on  such  houses  or 
other  buildings.  The  numbers  shall  proceed  continuously 
from  place  of  beginning,  and  each  number  *shall  be  as  nearly 
opposite  its  alternate  as  may  be.  The  buildings  fronting 
upon  Central  square  shall  be  numbered  consecutively,  begin- 
ning with  the  Bank  block  on  the  east  side  and  numbering 
north  to  City  Hall  block ; thence  west  across  the  north  side 
from  Clarke’s  block  to  Court  street ; thence  south  across  the 
west  side  from  Lane’s  block  to  West  street.  The  six  streets 
radiating  from  Central  square,  namely:  Main,  Roxbury, 
Washington,  Court,  Winter  and  West  to  be  numbered  con- 
tinuously from  this  point.  Streets  which  are  west  of  Main 
or  Washington,  and  parallel  or  nearly  so  with  West,  shall  be 
numbered  from  east  to  west,  and  those  lying  east  of  Main  or 
Washington  and  parallel  or  nearly  so  with  Roxbury,  shall 
be  numbered  from  west  to  east.  Streets  lying  north  of  West 
or  Roxbury,  and  parallel  or  nearly  so  with  Court  or  Wash- 
ington, shall  be  numbered  from  south  to  north,  and  those 
lying  south  of  West  and  Roxbury,  and  parallel  or  nearly  so 
with  Main,  shall  be  numbered  from  north  to  south.  In  all 
streets  the  odd  numbers  are  to  be  placed  on  the  right  hand 
side,  and  the  even  numbers  on  the  left  hand  of  streets.  The 
reservation  of  a specified  length  of  frontage  for  each  number 
may  be  allowed  to  vary  according  to  the  location  of  the 
street. 

Sect.  2.  A competent  person  shall  be  employed  to  pre- 
pare a book  containing  an  outline  map  or  tracing  of  each 
street  in  the  city,  with  the  houses  thereon,  together  with 
the  length  of  frontage  allowed  for  each  number  distinctly 
indicated,  so  that  each  person  can  ascertain  with  conven- 
ience and  certainty  the  number  which  belongs  to  each  lot. 
This  book  to  be  kept  with  the  city  clerk  for  reference  and 
the  use  of  the  city. 


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Sect.  3.  Any  owner  or  occupant  of  any  building  or 
part  of  a building,  in  said  city  who  shall  refuse  to  allow 
such  numbers  as  may  reasonably  be  required  to  carry  out 
the  purposes  of  this  ordinance,  to  be  affixed  to  or  remain 
upon  his  building  when  requested  so  to  do  by  the  board 
of  mayor  and  aldermen  or  their  appointed  agent,  or  who 
shall  display  upon  his  building  or  buildings  for  more  than 
one  day  as  a street  number,  any  number  contrary  to  the 
directions  of  said  board  of  mayor  and  alderman,  shall  be 
fined  not  exceeding  twenty  dollars. 


CHAPTER  XVIII. 

CRUELTY  TO  ANIMALS. 

Section  1.  No  person  shall  overdrive,  overload,  drive 
when  overloaded,  overwork,  torture,  torment,  deprive  of 
necessary  sustenance,  cruelly  beat,  mutilate,  or  cruelly  kill, 
or  cause  or  procure  to  be  so  overdriven,  overloaded,  driven 
when  overloaded,  overworked,  tortured,  tormented,  deprived 
of  necessary  sustenance,  cruelly  beaten,  mutilated  or  cruelly 
killed,  any  animal;  and  no  person  having  charge  and  cus- 
tody of  any  animal,  either  as  owner  or  otherwise,  shall 
inflict  unnecessary  cruelty  upon  the  same,  or  unnecessarily 
fail  to  provide  the  same  with  proper  food,  drink,  shelter, 
or  protection  from  the  weather. 

Sect.  2.  No  owner,  possessor,  or  person  having  the 
charge  or  custody  of  any  animal,  shall  cruelly  drive  or  work 
the  same  when  unfit  for  labor,  or  cruelly  abandon  the  same, 
or  carry  the  same  or  cause  the  same  to  be  carried  in  or 
upon  any  vehicle  or  otherwise  in  an  unnecessarily  cruel  or 
inhuman  manner,  or  knowingly  and  willfully,  authorize  to 
permit  the  same  to  be  subjected  to  unnecessary  torture, 
suffering  or  cruelty  of  any  kind. 

Sect.  3.  No  person  shall  keep  or  train  any  bird,  dog, 
or  other  animal,  with  intent  that  such  bird,  dog  or  other 
animal  shall  be  engaged  or  used  in  an  exhibition  of  fight- 
ing, or  shall  establish  or  promote  an  exhibition  of  the 
fighting  of  birds,  dogs  or  other  animals. 


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Sect.  4.  No  person  shall  be  present  at  any  place, 
building  or  tenement  when  preparations  are  being  made  for 
an  exhibition  of  the  fighting  of  birds,  dogs,  or  other 
animals,  with  intent  to  be  present  at  such  exhibition ; or 
be  present  at,  aid  in,  or  contribute  to  such  an  exhibition. 

Sect.  5.  No  person  shall  keep  or  use  any  live  pigeon, 
fowl  or  other  bird,  for  the  purpose  of  a target,  or  to  be  shot 
at,  either  for  amusement  or  as  a test  of  skill  in  markman- 
ship,  and  no  person  shall  shoot  at  any  bird  as  aforesaid, 
or  be  present  as  a party,  witness,  umpire  or  judge  at  any 
such  shooting  of  any  fowl  or  bird,  and  no  person  shall  rent 
any  building,  shed,  room,  yard,  field  or  premises,  or  shall 
knowingly  suffer  or  permit  the  use  of  any  building,  shed, 
room,  yard,  field  or  premises  for  the  purpose  of  shooting 
any  fowl  or  bird  as  aforesaid.  Nothing  contained  in  this 
section  shall  apply  to  the  shooting  of  any  wild  game  in  its 
wild  state. 

Sect.  6.  Any  violation  of  the  provisions  of  this  chapter 
shall  be  prosecuted  agreeably  to  the  laws  of  the  state. 

Sect.  7.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  marshal,  constables 
and  police  officers  to  prosecute  all  violations  of  the  pro- 
visions of  this  chapter  which  shall  come  to  their  notice  or 
knowledge. 

Sect.  8.  Any  and  all  fines  imposed  and  collected  by 
virtue  of  the  provisions  of  this  chapter  shall  be  paid  to  the 
treasurer  of  such  incorporated  and  organized  society  to 
prevent  cruelty  to  animals  as  shall  have  caused  to  be  insti- 
tuted the  prosecution  resulting  in  such  fines,  for  the  use  of 
such  society. 


CHAPTER  XIX. 

RELATING  TO  THE  BURIAL  OF  THE  DEAD. 

Section  1.  No  person  shall  bury,  or  cause  to  be  buried 
or  interred,  any  dead  body  at  any  other  time  of  the  day 
than  between  sunrising  and  sunsetting,  except  when  other- 
wise permitted  by  the  health  commissioners ; and  no  person 
shall  inter  or  cause  to  be  interred  any  dead  body  in  a grave 


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which  shall  be  less  than  four  feet  deep  from  the  surface  of 
the  ground  surrounding  the  grave  to  the  top  of  the  coffin. 
Any  person  violating  any  provision  of  this  chapter  shall  be 
fined  not  exceeding  twenty  dollars. 


CHAPTER  XX. 

HABITUAL  TRUANTS. 

Section  1.  Any  child  between  the  ages  of  six  and 
sixteen  years,  without  any  regular  and  lawful  occupation, 
who  shall,  except  in  case  of  ill  health,  habitually  neglect  to 
attend  school,  or  become  an  habitual  truant,  upon  convic- 
tion thereof  shall  be  fined  not  less  than  one  dollar  nor 
more  than  ten  dollars,  or  said  child  may  be  sentenced  to 
the  Industrial  School  in  the  discretion  of  the  court. 

Sect.  2.  The  city  marshal  and  police  of  Keene  shall  be 
the  truant  officers  of  this  city,  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to 
look  after'such  truant  children,  and  to  report  their  names 
to  the  board  of  education,  and  upon  request  of  said  board 
to  make  complaint  of  such  truants  to  the  police  court,  and 
cause  such  complaint  to  be  prosecuted. 


CHAPTER  XXI. 

ANIMALS  AT  LARGE. 

Section  1.  No  sheep,  goats,  swine,  horses,  mules, 
jacks,  oxen,  cows  or  other  cattle,  shall  be  led  or  driven, 
except  for  cleaning  ways,  or  allowed  to  go  upon  any  side- 
walk or  grass  plot  in  front  of  sidewalks  in  this  city,  or 
permitted  to  go  at  large  on  any  highway,  street,  sidewalk, 
grass  plot,  lane,  alley,  common,  square,  or  other  public 
place  within  this  city. 

Sect.  2.  Every  person  permitting  any  sheep,  goats, 
swine,  horses,  mules,  jacks,  oxen,  cows  or  any  other  cattle, 
to  go  upon  any  sidewalk,  or  grass  plot,  or  at  large,  con- 
trary to  the  provisions  of  section  1 of  this  chapter,  shall 


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be  fined  not  less  than  one  dollar  or  more  than  ten  dollars 
for  every  such  offense. 

Sect.  3.  Any  person  finding  any  such  creatures  so 
going,  may  impound  and  detain  them  agreeably  to  law, 
or  he  piay  make  complaint  against  the  person  permitting 
such  creatures  to  go  upon  sidewalks,  grass  plots,  or  at 
large. 


CHAPTER  XXII. 

OBSERVING  THE  LORD’S  DAY. 

Section  1.  No  person  shall  keep  open  his  store,  cellar, 
restaurant  or  bar-room,  or  shall  sell,  give,  offer  or  expose 
for  sale  any  cider,  beer,  ale  or  intoxicating  liquors  of  any 
kind,  or  fruits,  nuts,  confectionery,  or  oysters,  or  books, 
pamphlets,  newspapers,  or  merchandise  of  any  kind,  on  the 
first  day  of  the  week,  commonly  called  the  Lord’s  day  ; nor 
shall  any  person  use  any  play  or  game  on  that  day. 

Sect.  2.  For  the  purpose  of  the  provisions  of  the  first 
section  of  this  chapter,  the  Lord’s  day  shall  be  understood 
to  include  the  time  between  the  midnight  preceding  and 
the  midnight  of  said  day. 

Sect.  3.  The  provisions  of  this  chapter  shall  not  be 
construed  to  prevent  any  baker  from  delivering  bread,  or 
any  druggist  or  apothecary  from  selling  medicine,  or  the 
city  liquor  agent  from  selling  liquors  for  medicinal  pur- 
poses, under  such  rules  and  regulations  as  may  be  estab- 
lished by  the  board  of  mayor  and  aldermen. 

Sect.  4.  No  person  shall,  during  any  day  of  the  week, 
keep  open  his  saloon,  restaurant  or  bar-room,  nor  offer  or 
expose  for  sale  any  cider,  beer,  ale  or  intoxicating  liquors 
of  any  kind,  between  the  hours  of  half  past  nine  o’clock  in 
the  evening  and  five  o’clock  in  the  morning,  excepting 
depot  restaurants,  and  the  city  marshal  is  hereby  in- 
structed to  see  that  this  ordinance  is  strictly  enforced. 

Sect.  5.  Any  person  offending  against  any  of  the  pro- 
visions of  this  chapter,  shall  be  fined  not  less  than  one 
dollar  or  more  than  ten  dollars  for  each  offence. 


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CHAPTER  XXIII. 

RELATING  TO  DOGS. 

Section  1.  Whenever,  in  the  opinion  of  the  mayor  and 
aldermen,  the  public  safety  may  require  it,  they  may  order 
that  all  dogs  running  at  large  in  the  city  of  Keene,  shall 
be  securely  muzzled;  and  after  notice  of  such  order  shall 
have  been  posted  up  at  two  or  more  public  places  in  said 
city,  and  said  notice  published  in  the  daily  newspaper,  the 
mayor  and  alderman  may  issue  their  warrant  to  one  or 
more  of  the  police  officers  or  constables,  who  shall,  after 
twenty-four  hours  from  the  publication  of  such  notice, 
kill  all  dogs  found  unmuzzled  or  running  at  large  contrary 
to  such  order. 


CHAPTER  XXIV. 

PROTECTION  OF  THE  PEOPLE  FROM  THE  SLIDING  OF  SNOW 
FROM  BUILDINGS. 

Section  1.  All  buildings  so  situated  and  with  roofs  so 
inclined  that  snow  and  ice  naturally  slide  or  fall  from  the 
same  into  any  public  street,  walk  or  thoroughfare,  shall  be 
protected  with  a proper  guard  or  railing  upon  such  roofs, 
or  proper  awning  projecting  under  the  same,  as  will  pre- 
vent the  snow  and  ice  from  so  sliding  and  falling  into  such 
street,  walk  or  thoroughfare. 

Sect.  2.  The  owner,  or  agent  of  any  owner  of  any 
building,  neglecting  for  thirty  days  to  comply  with  the  fore- 
going section  after  being  requested  by  the  city  marshal  to 
comply  therewith,  shall  be  fined  not  exceeding  twenty 
dollars. 


CHAPTER  XXV. 

PUBLIC  PARKS. 

Section  1.  All  the  land  owned  by  the  city  near  the 
octagon  reservoir  on  Beach  hill,  together  with  all  the  land 


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surrounding  the  old  reservoir  pond  on  said  hill,  is  consti- 
tuted a public  park  to  be  called  “the  city  park.” 

Sect.  2.  There  shall  be  elected  in  the  month  of  January 
in  each  year,  or  when  a vacancy  exists,  by  the  city  councils 
in  joint  convention  and  by  joint  ballot,  a park  commis- 
sioner. 

Sect.  3.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  park  commissioner 
to  take  entire  charge  of  all  the  parks  or  lands  held  in  trust 
by  the  city,  unless  otherwise  provided;  to  expend,  under 
the  direction  of  the  committee  on  public  parks,  appropria- 
tions or  other  incomes,  in  ornamenting  and  protecting  said 
parks;  to  dispose  of  dangerous  or  objectionable  trees;  to 
fix  bounds,  repair  fences  against  pastures,  or  other  lands, 
and  to  report  to  the  city  councils  annually. 


CHAPTER  XXVI. 

PROTECTION  OF  SHADE  TREES. 

Section  1.  No  person  shall  be  allowed  to  post  any  bills, 
advertisements,  cards,  or  notices  of  any  kind,  upon  any 
tree,  placed  or  growing  for  ornament  or  use,  in  any  yard, 
street  or  square,  within  the  limits  of  the  city,  without  first 
obtaining  the  consent  of  the  owners,  or  permission  of  the 
mayor  and  aldermen. 

Sect.  2.  No  person  shall  be  allowed  to  fasten  or  hitch 
any  animal  to  any  shade  or  ornamental  tree,  standing  on 
any  common,  square,  street,  lane  or  avenue,  within  the 
limits  of  the  city,  except  such  as  may  have  a hook  or  ring 
in  it  for  the  purpose  of  a public  or  private  hitching  place. 

Sect.  3.  No  person  shall  destroy  or  remove  any  shade 
or  ornamental  tree  standing  on  any  common,  square,  street 
or  lane  within  the  limits  of  the  city,  without  the  permission 
of  the  mayor  and  aldermen,  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
superintendent  of  highways  to  note  any  infraction  of  this 
chapter,  and  report  the  same  at  once  to  the  board  of  mayor 
and  aldermen. 

Sect.  4.  Any  person  violating  any  provision  of  this 
chapter  shall  be  fined  not  exceeding  five  dollars. 


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CHAPTER  XXVII. 

PUBLIC  PRINTING. 

Section  1.  The  joint  standing  committee  on  printing 
shall  have  charge  of  printing  the  blanks,  reports  and  other 
matter  to  be  used  in  the  different  departments  of  the  city 
government;  and  no  bills  for  printing  or  publishing  shall 
be  audited  until  approved  by  them. 

Sect.  2.  All  city  ordinances,  and  such  joint  resolutions 
as  in  the  opinion  of  the  mayor  the  public  good  requires, 
shall  be  published  in  one  issue  of  the  New  Hampshire 
Sentinel,  the  Keene  Evening  Sentinel  and  Cheshire  Repub- 
lican, and  the  clerk  shall  furnish  copies  therefor.  In  the 
annual  city  reports  shall  be  published  all  ordinances  and 
joint  resolutions  passed  during  the  year. 


CHAPTER  XXVIII. 

CITY  ORDINANCES. 

Section  1.  All  ordinances  passed  by  the  city  councils 
shall  be  engrossed  or  recorded  by  the  city  clerk  in  a fair 
and  legible  hand,  without  interlineation  or  erasure,  and  in 
the  order  in  which  they  shall  be  passed,  in  a book  to  be 
kept  for  that  purpose,  made  of  strong  linen  paper,  with 
proper  margin  and  index,  to  be  lettered  “Record  of  Ordi- 
nances of  the  City  of  Keene,”  which  book  shall  be  preserved 
in  the  office  of  the  city  clerk,  subject  to  the  inspection  of 
the  citizens. 


CHAPTER  XXIX. 

ELECTION  OF  CERTAIN  OFFICERS. 

Section  1.  The  city  councils,  in  convention,  shall,  in 
the  month  of  January,  annually,  or  when  vacancies  occur, 
elect  the  following  officers : city  treasurer,  city  clerk,  sur- 
veyors of  lumber,  measurers  of  wood,  weighers  of  hay, 
straw  and  coal,  fence  viewers,  sealer  of  weights  and 


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measures,  and  sexton,  who  shall  hold  their  office  for  one 
year,  unless  sooner  removed,  and  until  others  are  chosen 
and  qualified. 


CHAPTER  XXX. 

BILLIARD  SALOONS. 

Section  1.  No  person  shall  keep  a billiard  table  in  the 
city  of  Keene,  except  for  private  use,  unless  a license  there- 
for in  writing,  specifying  the  place  in  which  the  same  is 
to  be  kept,  under  the  restrictions  provided  by  the  state, 
shall  first  be  obtained  from  the  board  of  mayor  and  aider- 
men. 

Sect.  2.  Every  person  shall  pay  for  such  license,  for 
the  use  of  the  city,  ten  dollars,  and  to  the  city  clerk  a fee  of 
fifty  cents  for  each  license,  to  be  paid  by  the  person  to  whom 
it  is  granted ; and  such  license  shall  be  revoked  and  annulled 
at  the  pleasure  of  the  mayor  and  aldermen,  and  shall  be 
forfeited  upon  conviction  of  the  violation  of  any  of  the 
provisions  of  this  chapter. 

Sect.  3.  No  keeper  of  a billiard  table  shall  allow  or 
permit  any  minor  to  play  at  billiards,  or  any  other  game, 
in  his  saloon,  or  to  remain  therein,  or  in  any  room  con- 
nected therewith,  except  with  the  consent  of  the  father,  or 
guardian  of  such  minor;  nor  permit  or  suffer  any  game 
whatever  to  be  played  in  said  saloon,  or  any  room  con- 
nected therewith,  after  the  hour  of  ten  in  the  evening  of 
any  day. 

Sect.  4.  The  person  violating  any  of  the  provisions  of 
this  chapter  shall  be  fined  not  more  than  ten  dollars,  and 
shall  also  be  required  to  keep  the  peace  and  be  of  good 
behavior. 


CHAPTER  XXXI. 

OFFICIAL  BONDS. 

Section  1.  The  following  named  officers  of  the  city 
shall  not  enter  upon  the  duties  of  their  office  until  they  have 


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furnished  bonds,  approved  by  the  mayor  and  aldermen,  for 
the  faithful  discharge  of  their  duties  in  the  following  sums, 
to  wit : treasurer,  in  the  sum  of  thirty  thousand  dollars ; 
superintendent  of  highways,  in  the  sum  of  one  thousand  dol- 
lars ; superintendent  of  water  works  and  sewers,  in  the  sum 
of  one  thousand  dollars;  collector  of  taxes  and  water 
rents,  in  the  sum  of  thirty-five  thousand  dollars ; city  clerk, 
in  the  sum  of  one  thousand  dollars;  city  marshal,  in  the 
sum  of  three  hundred  dollars;  city  messenger,  in  the  sum 
of  three  hundred  dollars;  constables,  in  the  sum  of  three 
hundred  dollars  each;  superintendent  of  public  cemeteries, 
in  the  sum  of  one  thousand  dollars. 

Sect.  2.  These  bonds  may  be  increased,  from  time  to 
time,  at  the  discretion  of  the  board  of  mayor  and  aldermen. 


CHAPTER  XXXII. 

PROHIBITING  THE  USE  OF  FIREARMS  AND  OTHER  EXPLOSIVES. 

Section  1.  No  person  shall,  within  the  limits  of  the 
city,  fire  or  discharge  any  cannon,  gun,  pistol,  or  other 
firearms,  or  discharge  any  rockets,  squibs,  fire-crackers, 
grenades,  or  any  preparation  of  gunpowder,  except  by 
permission  of  the  mayor  and  aldermen,  in  writing,  or  shall 
make  any  bonfire,  or  improperly  use  or  expose  any  friction 
matches,  or  knowingly  raise  or  repeat  any  false  cry  of  fire; 
or,  between  the  hours  of  ten  o’clock  p.  m.  and  four  o’clock 
a.  m.,  shall  blow  any  horn  or  instrument,  ring  bells,  or  in 
any  way  disturb  the  peace.  The  penalty  for  violation  of 
this  ordinance  shall  be  a fine  not  exceeding  twenty  dollars, 
and  costs  of  prosecution. 


CHAPTER  XXXIII. 

LICENSING  SHOWS. 

Section  1.  The  mayor,  or,  in  his  absence,  the  presi- 
dent of  the  common  council,  shall  have  power  to  license  all 


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public  shows,  circuses,  caravans  and  concerts,  on  such  law- 
ful terms  and  conditions  as  to  him  may  seem  reasonable 
and  just.  x 

Sect.  2.  Any  person  who  shall  set  up,  maintain  or  ex- 
hibit any  public  show,  circus  or  caravan  without  license 
as  aforesaid,  or  contrary  to  the  terms  and  conditions  of 
said  license,  shall  be  prosecuted  and  fined  agreeably  to  the 
laws  of  the  state. 


CHAPTER  XXXIV. 

RELATING  TO  THE  LETTING  OF  CITY  HALL. 

Section  1.  All  applications  for  the  use  of  the  city  hall 
shall  be  made  to  the  city  messenger. 

Sect.  2.  The  terms  upon  which  the  hall  shall  be  let, 
from  time  to  time,  shall  be  left  with  a board  to  be  consti- 
tuted as  follows : the  mayor,  city  messenger,  and  one 
member  of  the  common  council  to  be  appointed  by  the 
president  of  said  council,  which  board  shall  establish  as 
uniform  and  just  a scale  of  prices  as  possible. 

Sect.  3.  All  acts  of  this  board  shall  be  subject  to  a 
revision  by  joint  action  of  the  city  councils. 


CHAPTER  XXXV. 

SALARIES  OF  CITY  OFFICERS. 

Section  1.  The  mayor  shall  receive  in  full  for  his  ser- 
vices as  mayor,  head  of  the  police,  and  for  all  other  duties 
appertaining  to  his  office,  the  sum  of  five  hundred  dollars 
per  year,  to  be  paid  in  equal  quarterly  payments. 

Sect.  2.  The  city  clerk  shall  receive  for  his  services, 
and  all  duties  connected  with  his  office,  the  sum  of  seven 
hundred  dollars  per  year,  to  be  paid  in  equal  monthly  pay- 
ments, and  all  fees  appertaining  to  said  office. 

Sect.  3.  The  city  solicitor  shall  receive  in  full  for  his 
services  as  city  solicitor,  and  for  all  the  duties  appertaining 


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to  his  office,  not  otherwise  provided  for,  the  sum  of  fifty 
dollars  per  year,  to  be  paid  in  equal  semi-annual  payments. 

Sect.  4.  The  city  messenger  shall  receive  in  full  for  his 
services,  and  all  the  duties  appertaining  to  his  office,  the 
sum  of  four  hundred  dollars  per  year,  to  be  paid  in  equal 
quarterly  payments. 

Sect.  5.  The  city  treasurer  shall  receive  in  full  for  his 
services,  and  all  the  duties  appertaining  to  his  office,  the 
sum  of  fifty  dollars  per  year,  to  be  paid  in  equal  quarterly 
payments. 

Sect.  6.  The  superintendent  of  highways  shall  receive 
in  full  for  his  services,  and  all  the  duties  appertaining  to 
his  office,  the  sum  of  seven  hundred  dollars  per  year,  and 
fifty  dollars  per  year  for  use  of  driving  horse  and  carriage 
while  in  the  discharge  of  his  duties  as  superintendent  of 
highways ; provided,  that  no  horse  or  carriage  owned  by 
or  employed  for  the  city  shall  be  used  for  this  purpose ; to 
be  paid  in  equal  monthly  payments. 

Sect.  7.  The  clerk  of  the  common  council  shall  receive 
in  full  for  his  services,  and  all  the  duties  appertaining  to  his 
office,  the  sum  of  fifty  dollars  per  year,  to  be  paid  in  equal 
quarterly  payments. 

Sect.  8.  The  city  marshal  shall  receive  in  full  for  the 
services  rendered  by  him  to  the  city,  the  sum  of  seven  hun- 
dred and  thirty  dollars  per  year,  to  be  paid  in  equal  monthly 
payments. 

Sect.  9.  The  collector  of  taxes  and  water  assessments 
of  the  city  shall  receive  in  full  for  his  services,  and  all  duties 
appertaining  to  his  office,  the  sum  of  eight  hundred  dollars 
to  be  paid  as  follows:  two  hundred  dollars  to  be  paid  on 
the  first  day  of  October,  two  hundred  more  on  the  first  day 
of  January  during  his  term  of  office,  and  the  remainder 
when  said  collector  shall  have  made  a full  settlement  of  all 
taxes  given  him  for  collection  and  paid  the  same  to  the 
city. 

Sect.  10.  The  regular  pay  of  the  police  and  watchmen 
shall  be  two  dollars  per  day  while  actually  employed,  pay- 
able monthly. 


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Sect.  11.  The  justice  of  the  police  court  shall  receive 
in  full  for  his  services  as  police  justice,  and  for  all  duties 
appertaining  to  his  office,  the  sum  of  one  hundred  dollars 
per  year,  to  be  paid  in  equal  quarterly  payments,  and  the 
usual  fees  of  a justice  of  the  peace,  in  all  cases  entered  in 
said  court. 

Sect.  12.  The  overseer  of  the  poor  shall  receive  in  full 
for  his  services,  the  sum  of  two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars, 
and  twenty-five  dollars  additional  for  office  rent,  per  year, 
to  be  paid  in  equal  quarterly  payments. 

Sect.  13.  Each  of  the  selectmen  and  the  ward  clerk  of 
each  ward  in  the  city  shall  receive  in  full  for  his  services, 
the  sum  of  five  dollars  per  year,  to  be  paid  at  the  expira- 
tion of  his  official  year,  and  said  ward  clerks  shall  also 
receive  the  fees  allowed  by  the  Public  Statues  for  certified 
reports. 

Sect.  14.  The  moderator  of  each  ward  shall  receive  in 
full  for  his  services,  and  for  all  the  duties  appertaining  to 
his  office,  the  sum  of  two  dollars  per  year,  to  be  paid  at 
the  expiration  of  his  official  year. 

Sect.  15.  The  chief  engineer  of  the  fire  department 
shall  receive  the  sum  of  fifty  dollars,  and  each  of  the  assist- 
ant engineers  the  sum  of  thirty-five  dollars  per  year  in  full 
for  their  services,  and  for  all  duties  appertaining  to  their 
respective  offices,  except  the  regular  annual  examination  of 
the  fire  district,  for  which  service  they  shall  receive  the  sum 
of  two  dollars  per  day  for  the  actual  time  employed,  to  be 
paid  at  the  expiration  of  their  official  year. 

Sect.  16.  Each  of  the  engineers  of  the  steamer  com- 
pany shall  receive  the  sum  of  sixty  dollars  per  year,  each 
of  the  assistant  engineers  twenty-five  dollars  per  year,  each 
of  the  two  firemen  ten  dollars  per  year,  in  addition  to  their 
regular  pay  as  firemen,  in  full  for  all  services  rendered  the 
fire  department,  annually  on  the  first  day  of  October. 

Sect.  17.  The  water  and  sewer  commissioners  shall 
receive  in  full  for  their  services,  and  for  all  the  duties  apper- 
taining to  their  office,  the  sum  of  twenty-five  dollars  each 
per  year,  payable  in  equal  quarterly  payments. 


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Sect.  18.  The  assessors  shall  annually  receive  the  sum 
of  one  hundred  and  forty  dollars  each  in  full  for  their  ser- 
vices, payable  one  hundred  and  ten  dollars  on  the  first  day 
of  July  in  each  year,  and  the  balance  on  the  first  day  of 
January  following. 

Sect.  19.  The  assistant  assessor  shall  receive  two  dol- 
lars a day  for  such  time  as  he  is  actually  employed  as  such 
assistant,  and  a statement  of  the  time  for  which  he  is 
entitled  to  receive  said  per  diem  shall  be  approved  by  two 
at  least  of  the  assessors  before  the  claim  is  presented  to  the 
auditor  for  approval. 

Sect.  20.  The  superintendent  of  cemeteries  shall  receive 
in  full  for  his  services  the  sum  of  one  hundred  dollars,  pay- 
able semi-annually. 

Sect.  21.  The  superintendent  of  waterworks  and  sew- 
ers shall  receive  in  full  for  his  services  the  sum  of  twelve 
hundred  dollars,  payable  in  equal  monthly  payments. 

Sect.  22.  The  auditfbr  shall  receive  in  full  for  his  services 
one  hundred  dollars,  payable  in  equal  quarterly  payments. 

Sect.  23.  The  city  physician  shall  receive  in  full  for  his 
services  one  hundred  dollars  a year,  payable  in  equal 
quarterly  payments. 

Sect.  24.  The  health  commissioners  shall  receive  in  full 
for  their  services,  and  all  the  duties  pertaining  to  their 
office,  the  sum  of  seventy-five  dollars  each  per  year,  pay- 
able semi-annually. 

Sect.  25.  The  superintendent  of  fire  alarm  shall  receive 
in  full  for  his  services,  and  all  the  duties  pertaining  to  his 
office,  the  sum  of  two  hundred  dollars  per  year,  payable 
in  equal  quarterly  payments. 

Sect.  26.  The  park  commissioner  shall  receive  in  full 
for  his  services,  and  all  the  duties  pertaining  to  his  office, 
the  sum  of  twenty-five  dollars  per  year,  payable  semi- 
annually. 

Sect.  27.  The  city  liquor  agent  shall  receive  in  full  for 
his  services,  and  all  the  duties  pertaining  to  his  office,  the 
sum  of  one  hundred  dollars  per  year,  payable  annually  on 
the  first  day  of  April. 


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CHAPTER  XXXVI. 

RELATIVE  TO  SERVICES  OF  CITY  OFFICERS. 

Section  1.  No  claim  against  the  city  for  extra  services 
or  anything  not  included  in  their  regular  salary,  shall  be 
allowed  or  paid  for  or  to  any  officer  of  the  city,  unless  such 
claim  shall  be  presented  to  and  approved  by  the  board  of 
mayor  and  aldermen  within  fifteen  days  of  the  expiration 
of  each  month,  and  no  claim  for  services  shall  be  allowed 
to  any  special  policeman,  unless  each  place  and  time  of  ser- 
vice is  particularly  specified,  and  said  claim  is  presented 
and  allowed  as  above,  within  fifteen  days  of  the  expiration 
of  each  month. 


CHAPTER  XXXVII. 

ASSIGNMENT  OF  WAGES. 

Section  1.  No  assignment  of  wages,  by  any  of  its 
officers,  on  the  city,  shall  be  valid  unless  accepted  in  writing 
on  the  back  thereof  by  the  city  clerk.  And  the  city  clerk 
is  hereby  authorized  to  accept  on  behalf  of  the  city  all  such 
orders. 


CHAPTER  XXXVIII. 

EXAMINATION  OF  VOTES  FOR  MAYOR. 

Section  1.  The  city  councils  shall  annually  meet  in 
convention  on  the  third  Friday  in  the  month  of  December, 
for  the  purpose  of  examining  the  returns  of  votes  from  the 
several  wards  for  mayor,  and  declaring  the  result  thereof. 


CHAPTER  XXXIX. 

CITY  SEAL. 

Section  1.  The  seal  of  the  city  of  Keene  shall  be  as 
follows:  a circle  one  inch  and  five-eighths  in  diameter; 
around  the  border  in  capital  letters  the  words  “City  of 


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Keene”  in  the  upper  portion,  and  the  words  “New  Hamp- 
shire” in  the  lower  portion;  on  the  disk  a figure  of  Justice 
seated,  with  her  right  arm  resting  on  a circular  shield 
having  represented  upon  it  an  arm  in  the  act  of  striking 
with  a hammer ; on  the  right  an  inverted  horn  with  coins 
issuing  therefrom ; on  the  left  a toothed-wheel  and  sheaves 
of  wheat;  a railroad  train  in  the  background;  the  figures 
1874  underneath  within  the  border. 


And  be  it  further  ordained  that  these  ordinances  shall 
take  effect  upon  their  passage,  and  all  ordinances  and 
parts  of  ordinance  inconsistent  therewith  are  hereby 
repealed. 

[Passed  March  15,  1900.] 


RULES  OF  ORDER. 


RULES  OF  ORDER  OF  THE  CITY  COUNCILS. 

REVISED  MARCH  15,  1900. 


RULES  OF  THE  BOARD  OF  ALDERMEN. 

Section.  1.  The  mayor  shall  take  the  chair  precisely 
at  the  hour  appointed  for  the  meeting,  and  shall  call  the 
members  to  order;  if  a quorum  be  present,  he  shall  cause 
the  journal  of  the  previous  meeting  to  be  read,  and  if  no 
objection  is  made,  it  shall  stand  approved. 

Sect.  2.  In  the  absence  of  the  mayor,  the  city  clerk 
shall  call  for  the  nomination  of  a chairman  pro  tern.,  who, 
upon  being  elected,  shall  preside  until  the  mayor  arrives, 
or  during  that  meeting,  and  no  longer. 

Sect.  3.  The  order  of  business  shall  be  as  follows: 

First.  Communications  from  the  mayor. 

Second.  Petitions  shall  be  called  for  and  disposed  of  by 
reference,  or  otherwise. 

Third.  Reports  of  committees  shall  be  in  order. 

Fourth.  The  business  remaining  unfinished  at  the  pre- 
vious meeting  shall  be  taken  up. 

Fifth.  Orders  of  the  day  shall  be  taken  up. 

Sixth.  Nominations  and  appointments  shall  be  made. 

Seventh.  New  business  may  be  introduced  by  any 
member  of  the  board. 

Sect.  4.  The  mayor  may  express  his  opinion  upon  any 
subject  under  debate ; and  in  case  any  measure  or  appoint- 
ment is  negatived  by  his  veto,  a two-thirds  vote  shall  be 
required  before  it  can  be  declared  carried,  and  such  action 
shall  be  taken  before  adjournment. 


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Sect.  5.  The  mayor  shall  consider  a motion  to  adjourn 
as  always  in  order,  the  time  of  the  next  meeting  having 
been  agreed  on,  and  the  proper  notice  given  to  the  com- 
mon council.  Such  motion  shall  be  decided  without  debate. 

Sect.  6.  All  committees,  except  such  as  the  board  shall 
determine  to  elect,  shall  be  appointed  and  announced  by 
the  mayor. 

Sect.  7.  Every  member  speaking  in  debate  shall  con- 
fine himself  to  the  question  under  discussion. 

Sect.  8.  No  member  shall  interrupt  another  while 
speaking,  except  by  rising  to  call  him  to  order,  or  to  cor- 
rect a mistake. 

Sect.  9.  When  a motion  is  made  and  seconded,  it  shall 
be  considered  by  the  board. 

Sect.  10.  When  a motion  is  under  debate,  no  motion 
shall  be  received  but — 

To  adjourn, 

To  lay  on  the  table, 

To  postpone  to  a day  certain, 

To  commit, 

To  amend, 

To  postpone  indefinitely. 

Which  several  motions  shall  have  precedence  in  the  order 
in  which  they  are  arranged. 

Sect.  11.  A motion  for  the  reconsideration  of  a vote 
shall  be  open  to  debate,  but  such  motion  shall  not  be  con- 
sidered, unless  made  by  a member  voting  with  the  majority, 
nor  unless  such  motion  is  made  at  the  meeting  at  which 
such  vote  passed,  or  notice  of  such  motion  is  given  at  said 
meeting,  in  which  case,  the  motion  shall  be  made  at  the 
next  meeting ; and  only  one  motion  for  the  reconsideration 
of  any  vote  shall  be  permitted. 

Sect.  12.  Standing  committees  shall  be  appointed  on 
bills  on  their  second  reading,  on  licenses,  and  on  claims  to 
be  disposed  of  by  action  of  the  mayor  and  aldermen. 

Sect.  13.  All  ordinances  shall  pass  through  the  follow- 
ing stages  before  they  shall  be  considered  as  having  received 
the  final  action  of  the  board,  to  wit : first,  reading  for  infor- 


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mation,  and  if  not  rejected  or  otherwise  disposed  of,  shall 
be  referred  to  the  committee  on  bills  in  their  second  reading 
by  the  chair,  and  after  being  reported  by  said  committee, 
shall  be  again  read.  After  which  reading  the  question  shall 
be  on  the  passage  of  the  same  to  be  engrossed. 

Sect.  14.  The  above  rules  and  order  of  business  shall 
be  observed  in  all  cases,  unless  suspended  by  a vote  of  two- 
thirds  of  the  members  present,  for  a specific  purpose. 


RULES  OF  THE  COMMON  COUNCIL. 

Section  1.  The  president  shall  take  the  chair  precisely 
at  the  hour  appointed  for  the  meeting,  call  the  members  to 
order s and  within  ten  minutes  (or  sooner  if  a quorum  be  pres- 
ent) shall  cause  the  roll  to  be  called,  and  the  names  of  the 
members  present  to  be  recorded.  The  clerk  shall  record  the 
names  of  members  coming  in  after  the  calling  of  the  roll. 
Before  proceeding  to  business,  he  shall  cause  the  minutes  of 
the  preceding  meeting  to  be  read.  In  the  absence  of  the 
president,  the  clerk  shall  call  the  council  to  order,  and  pre- 
side until  a president  pro  tempore  shall  be  chosen  by  ballot. 
Upon  a ballot  for  president  pro  tempore,  a plurality  of  votes 
shall  elect.  At  every  regular  meeting  of  the  council,  the 
order  of  business  shall  be  as  follows : 

First.  Such  memorials  and  other  papers  as  shall  then 
be  presented  shall  be  acted  upon. 

Second.  Papers  from  the  other  board  shall  be  taken  up 
and  disposed  of. 

Third.  The  unfinished  business  in  which  the  council 
was  engaged  at  the  time  of  adjournment  of  the  last  regular 
meeting,  shall  be  acted  upon. 

Fourth.  New  business  may  be  introduced  by  any  mem- 
ber of  the  council. 

Sect.  2.  The  president  shall  preserve  decorum  and 
order;  he  may  speak  to  points  of  order  in  preference  to 
other  members,  and  shall  decide  all  questions  of  order, 
subject  to  an  appeal  to  the  council,  on  motion  of  any 
member. 


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Sect.  3.  He  shall  declare  all  votes;  but  if  any  member 
doubt  the  vote,  the  president,  without  further  debate  upon 
the  question,  shall  require  first  those  in  the  affirmative,  and 
afterwards  those  in  the  negative,  to  rise  and  stand  until 
counted,  and  he  shall  declare  the  result. 

Sect.  4.  The  president  may  call  any  member  to  the 
chair,  provided  such  substitution  shall  not  continue  longer 
than  one  meeting.  When  the  council  shall  determine  to  go 
into  committee  of  the  whole,  the  president  shall  appoint 
the  member  who  shall  take  the  chair.  The  president  may 
express  his  opinion  on  any  subject  under  debate;  but  in 
such  case  he  shall  leave  the  chair  and  appoint  some  other 
member  to  take  it ; and  he  shall  not  resume  the  chair  while 
the  same  question  is  pending.  But  the  president  may  state 
facts  and  give  his  opinion  on  questions  of  order  without 
leaving  his  place. 

Sect.  5.  When  any  member  shall  require  a question  to 
be  taken  by  yeas  and  nays,  the  president  shall  take  the 
sense  of  the  council  in  that  manner. 

Sect.  6.  He  shall  propound  all  questions  in  the  order 
in  which  they  are  moved,  unless  the  subsequent  motion 
shall  be  previous  in  its  nature ; except  that  in  naming  sums 
and  fixing  times,  the  largest  sum  and  the  longest  time  shall 
be  put  first. 

Sect.  7.  After  a motion  is  stated  by  the  president,  it 
shall  be  disposed  of  by  vote  of  the  council,  unless  the  mover 
withdraw  it  before  a decision  or  amendment. 

Sect.  8.  The  president  shall  consider  a motion  to  ad- 
journ as  always  in  order,  the  time  of  the  next  meeting  having 
been  agreed  on;  and  the  proper  notice  given  to  the  board 
of  aldermen,  unless  a member  has  possession  of  the  floor,  or 
any  question  has  been  put  and  not  decided.  The  motion  to 
adjourn,  or  to  lay  on  the  table,  or  to  take  up  from  the 
table,  shall  be  decided  without  debate. 

Sect.  9.  He  shall  put  the  previous  question  in  the  fol- 
lowing form:  “shall  the  main  question  be  now  put?”  and 
all  amendments  or  further  debate  of  the  main  question  shall 
be  suspended  until  the  previous  question  be  decided. 


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Sect.  10.  When  two  or  more  members  happen  to  rise 
at  the  same  time,  the  president  shall  name  the  member  who 
is  first  to  speak. 

Sect.  11.  All  committees,  except  such  as  the  council 
determine  to  elect,  shall  be  appointed  and  announced  by 
the  president. 

Sect.  12.  In  all  cases  the  president  may  vote. 

Sect.  13.  When  any  member  is  about  to  speak  in  de- 
bate, or  deliver  any  matter  to  the  council,  he  shall  rise  in  his 
place,  and  respectfully  address  the  presiding  officer ; shall  con- 
fine himself  to  the  question  under  debate,  and  avoid  person- 
ality. 

Sect.  14.  No  member,  in  debate,  shall  mention  another 
by  his  name,  but  may  describe  him  by  the  ward  he  repre- 
sents, or  such  other  designation  as  may  be  intelligible  or 
respectful. 

Sect.  15.  No  member  speaking  shall  be  interrupted  by 
another,  but  by  rising  to  call  to  order,  or  to  correct  a mis- 
take. But  if  any  member,  in  speaking  or  otherwise  shall 
transgress  the  rules  of  the  council,  the  president  shall,  or 
any  member  may,  call  him  to  order;  in  which  case  the 
member  called  to  order  shall  immediately  sit  down,  unless 
permitted  to  explain ; and  the  council,  if  appealed  to,  shall 
decide  on  the  case  without  debate. 

Sect.  16.  No  member  shall  speak  more  than  twice  to 
the  same  question,  nor  more  than  twenty  minutes  at  a time, 
if  objection  be  made,  without  first  obtaining  leave  of  the 
council ; nor  more  than  once,  until  all  the  other  members 
choosing  to  speak  shall  have  spoken. 

Sect.  17.  When  a question  is  under  debate,  no  motion 
shall  be  received  but — 

First.  To  adjourn. 

Second.  To  lay  on  the  table. 

Third.  For  the  previous  question. 

Fourth.  To  postpone  to  a day  certain. 

Fifth.  To  commit. 

Sixth.  To  amend. 

Seventh.  To  postpone  indefinitely. 


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Which  several  motions  shall  have  precedence  in  the  order 
in  which  they  are  arranged. 

Sect.  18.  Every  motion  shall  be  reduced  to  writing  if 
the  president  direct,  or  any  member  of  the  council  request 
it. 

Sect.  19.  A motion  for  the  reconsideration  of  a vote 
shall  be  open  to  debate,  but  such  motion  shall  not  be  con- 
sidered, unless  made  by  a member  voting  with  the  major- 
ity; nor  unless  such  motion  is  made  at  the  meeting  at 
which  such  vote  passed,  or  notice  of  such  motion  is  given 
at  said  meeting,  in  which  case  the  motion  shall  be  made 
at  the  next  meeting;  and  only  one  motion  for  the  recon- 
sideration of  any  vote  shall  be  permitted. 

Sect.  20.  No  member  shall  be  permitted  to  stand  up, 
to  the  interruption  of  another,  while  any  member  is  speak- 
ing; or  to  pass  unnecessarily  between  the  president  and 
the  person  speaking. 

Sect.  21.  Every  member  who  shall  be  in  the  council 
when  a question  is  put,  shall  give  his  vote,  unless  the  coun- 
cil, for  special  reasons,  excuse  him.  Application  to  be  so 
excused  on  any  question  must  be  made  before  the  council 
is  divided,  or  before  the  calling  of  the  yeas  and  nays,  and 
such  application  shall  be  accompanied  by  a brief  statement 
of  the  reasons,  and  shall  be  decided  without  debate. 

Sect.  22.  The  division  of  a question  may  be  called  for 
when  the  sense  will  admit  it. 

Sect.  23.  When  the  reading  of  a paper  is  called  for, 
and  the  same  is  objected  to  by  any  member,  it  shall  be  de- 
termined by  a vote  of  the  council. 

Sect.  24.  No  standing  rule  or  order  of  the  council  shall 
be  suspended,  unless  three-fourths  of  the  members  present 
shall  consent  thereto;  nor  shall  any  rule  or  order  be  re- 
pealed or  amended  without  a motion  therefor  be  made  at 
a previous  meeting,  nor  unless  a majority  of  the  whole 
council  shall  concur  therein. 

Sect.  25.  Every  member  shall  take  notice  of  the  day 
and  hour  to  which  the  council  may  stand  adjourned,  and 
shall  give  his  punctual  attendance  accordingly. 


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Sect.  26.  No  member  shall  be  obliged  to  be  on  more 
than  two  committees  of  the  council  at  the  same  time,  or 
to  be  chairman  of  more  than  one. 

Sect.  27.  All  memorials  and  other  papers  addressed  to 
the  council,  shall  be  presented  by  the  president,  or  by  a 
member  in  his  place,  who  shall  explain  the  subject  thereof; 
and  they  shall  lie  on  the  table  to  be  taken  up  in  the  order 
in  which  they  were  presented,  unless  the  council  shall  other- 
wise direct. 

Sect.  28.  Standing  committees  of  this  council  shall  be 
appointed  on  the  following  subjects,  viz:  on  elections  and 
returns,  and  on  bills  in  their  second  reading,  each  to  con- 
sist of  three  members. 

Sect.  29.  No  committee  shall  sit  during  the  sitting  of 
the  council,  without  special  leave. 

Sect.  30.  The  rules  of  proceeding  in  council  shall  be 
observed  in  committee  of  the  whole,  so  far  as  they  be  ap- 
plicable, excepting  the  rules  limiting  the  times  of  speaking ; 
but  no  member  shall  speak  twice  to  any  question,  until 
every  member  choosing  to  speak  shall  have  spoken. 

Sect.  31.  All  messages  to  the  mayor  and  aldermen 
shall  be  drawn  by  the  clerk,  and  transmitted  by  him  or 
otherwise. 

Sect.  32.  Every  ordinance  and  all  resolutions  impos- 
ing penalties,  or  authorizing  the  expenditure  of  money,  after 
being  once  read  for  information,  if  not  rejected,  shall  then 
be  referred  to  the  committee  on  bills  on  their  second  read- 
ing, which  committee  shall  carefully  examine  said  bills,  to 
see  that  they  are  in  technical  form,  and  that  their  provis- 
ions are  not  repugnant  to  the  laws  and  constitution  of  the 
state,  or  the  charter  and  ordinances  of  the  city,  and  make 
a report  of  them  to  the  council.  After  being  reported  by 
said  committee,  they  shall  again  be  read,  after  which  second 
reading,  the  question  shall  be  on  passing  the  same  to  be 
engrossed;  and  no  ordinance  shall  be  amended  except  on 
its  second  reading.  All  other  resolutions  shall  have  two 
several  readings  before  they  shall  finally  be  passed  by  the 
council. 


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Sect.  33.  All  special  committees  of  the  council  shall 
consist  of  three  members,  unless  a different  number  be  or- 
dered ; and  no  report  shall  be  received  from  any  committee, 
unless  agreed  to  in  committee  actually  assembled;  and  all 
reports  shall  be  made  in  writing. 

Sect.  34.  The  clerk  shall  keep  a record  of  the  votes 
and  proceedings  of  the  council,  entering  thereon  all  orders 
and  resolutions,  except  such  as  it  is  necessary  to  engross; 
he  shall  notice  reports,  memorials,  and  other  papers  sub- 
mitted to  the  council,  only  by  their  titles,  or  a brief  descrip- 
tion of  their  purport;  but  all  accepted  reports  shall  be 
entered  at  length  on  said  record. 

Sect.  35.  All  salaried  officers  shall  be  voted  for  by 
written  ballot. 

Sect.  36.  In  all  elections  by  ballot,  on  the  part  of  the 
council,  blank  ballots,  and  all  ballots  for  persons  not  eligible, 
shall  be  reported  to  the  council,  but  shall  not  be  counted  in 
making  up  the  returns. 

Sect.  37.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  committee  of  the 
council,  to  whom  any  subject  may  be  specially  referred,  to 
report  thereon  at  the  next  meeting  of  the  council,  or  ask 
for  further  time. 


JOINT  RULES  OF  ORDER. 

Section  1.  The  common  council  itiay  at  any  time  when 
the  city  councils  are  in  session,  give  notice  by  message  to 
the  board  of  aldermen  at  what  time  they  will  be  ready  to 
meet  in  convention,  stating  the  purpose  or  purposes  there- 
for. The  mayor  and  aldermen  shall,  as  soon  thereafter  as 
their  convenience  will  permit,  attend  in  the  chamber  of  the 
common  council ; and  on  entering  the  door,  the  doorkeeper 
or  messenger  will  announce:  “the  mayor  and  aldermen.” 
The  mayor,  on  assuming  the  chair,  shall  announce  the 
convention  assembled  and  its  purposes. 

Sect.  2.  The  rules  of  the  common  council,  so  far  as 
applicable,  shall  govern  the  proceedings  of  the  convention ; 
and  on  completion  of  its  business  and  vote  to  rise,  the 
mayor  and  aldermen  will  retire. 


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Sect.  3.  No  business  shall  be  done  in  convention,  ex- 
cept such  as  shall  have  been  previously  agreed  upon,  unless 
by  unanimous  consent. 

Sect.  4.  Messages  between  the  two  branches  shall  be 
signed  by  their  respective  clerks  and  transmitted  by  them 
or  otherwise. 

Sect.  5.  All  by-laws  passed  by  the  city  councils  shall 
be  termed  ordinances,  and  the  enacting  style  which  shall 
be  but  once  recited  in  each  ordinance  shall  be:  “ Be  it 

ordained  by  the  city  councils  of  the  city  of  Keene.’ ’ 

Sect.  6.  In  case  of  an  amendment  of  an  ordinance 
agreed  to  in  one  board  and  dissented  from  in  the  other,  if 
either  board  shall  request  a conference  and  appoint  a com- 
mittee for  that  purpose,  the  other  board  shall  also  appoint 
a committee  to  confer,  and  such  committees  shall,  at  a 
convenient  time  agreed  upon  by  their  chairman,  meet  and 
confer  on  the  subject  matter  of  the  disagreement,  and  report 
to  their  respective  boards. 

Sect.  7.  When  either  board  shall  concur  or  non-concur 
in  any  ordinance,  order  or  resolution  sent  from  the  other, 
notice  of  such  action  shall  be  transmitted  to  the  other 
board  by  message. 

Sect.  8.  No  committee  shall  act  by  separate  consulta- 
tion, and  no  report  shall  be  received  unless  agreed  to  in 
committee  actually  assembled.  All  reports  shall  be  made 
in  writing  and  signed. 

Sect.  9.  The  report  of  all  joint  committees,  signed  by 
a majority  of  the  members,  shall  be  made  as  provided  in  sec- 
tion 8,  and  shall  be  read  first  in  the  board  in  which  the 
business  originated,  and  afterwards  transmitted  to  the  other 
board  if  joint  action  is  to  be  taken  upon  the  subject  mat- 
ter of  said  report. 

Sect.  10.  The  mayor  shall  be,  ex-officio,  chairman  of 
any  joint  special  committee  of  which  he  is  a member. 

Sect.  11.  At  the  commencement  of  each  municipal 
year,  the  following  joint  standing  committees  shall  be  ap- 
pointed, viz:  on  finance,  on  schools,  on  lands  and  buildings, 
on  bridges,  on  streets  and  drains,  on  burying  grounds,  on 
fire  department,  on  street  lights,  on  water  works  and  sew- 


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ers,  on  printing,  on  engrossed  bills,  on  public  parks,  on 
public  library. 

Sect.  12.  In  all  joint  standing  committees,  except  that 
on  finance,  the  member  first  named  in  the  board  of  aldermen 
shall  be  chairman,  and  in  all  joint  special  committees  of 
which  the  mayor  is  not  a member,  the  member  first  named 
in  the  board  where  the  business  originated,  shall  be  chair- 
man, and  shall  call  the  committee  together.  All  joint  stand- 
ing committees  shall  consist  of  one  from  the  board  of  aider- 
men  and  two  from  the  common  council,  to  be  appointed 
in  their  respective  boards,  and  every  joint  committee  shall 
report  on  matters  referred  to  them  at  the  next  stated 
meeting,  or  ask  for  further  time. 

Sect.  13.  No  committee  shall  enter  into  any  contract 
with,  or  purchase,  or  authorize  the  purchase  of  any  article 
of  any  of  its  members. 

Sect.  14.  After  the  annual  appropriation  shall  have 
been  passed,  no  subsequent  expenditure  shall  be  authorized 
for  any  object,  without  a special  appropriation  therefor,  or 
by  expressly  creating  therefor  a city  debt ; and  no  city  debt 
shall  be  created,  except  by  the  affirmative  vote  of  two-thirds 
of  the  whole  number  of  each  branch  of  the  city  councils 
voting  by  yea  or  nay. 

Sect.  15.  Either  branch  may  propose  to  the  other  for 
its  concurrence,  a time  to  which  both  bpards  will  adjourn, 
and  neither  shall  adjourn  without  giving  notice  to  the  other 
board. 

Sect.  16.  When  a bill  or  joint  resolution  shall  have 
passed  the  several  readings  required  in  each  board,  it  shall 
be  referred  to  the  committee  on  engrossed  bills,  who  shall 
cause  it  to  be  engrossed  by  the  city  clerk,  and  on  finding 
it  correctly  engrossed  shall  report  it  to  the  common  council, 
when,  without  further  reading,  it  shall  be  signed  by  the 
president,  and  then  reported  to  the  board  of  aldermen,  and 
without  further  reading,  shall  be  signed  by  the  mayor. 

Sect.  17.  In  all  elections  by  ballot,  on  the  part  of  the 
city  councils  in  convention,  blank  ballots  and  all  ballots  for 
persons  not  eligible,  shall  be  reported  to  the  councils,  but 
shall  not  be  counted  in  making  up  the  returns. 


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CITY  OFFICIALS. 


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LIST  OF  CITY  OFFICIALS— 1874. 


MAYOR  I 

Horatio  Colony. 


ALDERMEN : 


Ward  1. 
Ward  2. 
Ward  3. 
Ward  4. 
Ward  5. 


Horatio  Kimball. 
Edward  Farrar. 

Don  H.  Woodward. 
Francis  A.  Faulkner. 
Reuben  Stewart. 


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Henry  S.  Martin,  City  Clerk. 


COUNCILMEN  : 

Henry  H.  Darling,  President. 
Ward  1.  Ward  3. 


Alanson  S.  Whitcomb, 

Francis  French, 

Franklin  J.  Ware. 

Ward  2. 

Henry  H.  Darling, 

Miles  S.  Buckminster, 

George  W.  Holbrook. 

Ward 


Joseph  R.  Beal, 

James  W.  Dodge, 

Nathan  G.  Woodbury. 
Ward  4. 

Frederick  H.  Kingsbury, 
Leander  W.  Cumings, 
Charles  N.  Wilder. 


William  Dinsmoor, 
Oscar  J.  Howard, 
Horace  Hamblet. 
Walter  S.  Whitcomb,  Clerk. 


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Farnum  F.  Lane,  City  Solicitor. 
Henry  0.  Coolidge,  City  Treasurer. 


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LIST  OF  CITY  OFFICIALS  — 1875. 


MAYOR : 

Horatio  Colony. 


ALDERMEN. 

Ward  1.  Solon  S.  Wilkinson. 
Ward  2.  Edward  Farrar. 
Ward  3.  Joseph  R.  Beal. 
Ward  4.  William  P.  Abbott. 
Ward  5.  Reuben  Stewart. 


Frank  H.  Starkweather,  City  Clerk. 


COUNCILMEN  : 


Frederick  H.  Kingsbury,  President. 
Ward  1.  Ward  3. 


Francis  A.  Perry, 
Asa  Fairbanks, 
William  L.  Davis. 
Ward  2. 


Allen  Giffin, 

William  H.  Knowlton, 
Daniel  H.  Sawyer. 

Ward  4. 


George  W.  Holbrook, 
Miles  S.  Buckminster, 
Asa  Smith. 


Charles  N.  Wilder, 
Frederick  H.  Kingsbury, 
Charles  Shrigley. 

Ward  5. 


William  Dinsmoor, 
Reuben  Hyland, 
Horace  Hamblet. 
Charles  A.  Gale,  Clerk. 


Francis  A.  Faulkner,  City  Solicitor. 
George  W.^Tilden^City  Treasurer. 


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LIST  OF  CITY  OFFICIALS— 1876. 


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MAYOR : 

Edward  Farrar. 


ALDERMEN : 

Ward  1.  Solon  S.  Wilkinson. 
Ward  2.  Thomas  E.  Hatch. 
Ward  3.  Joseph  R.  Beal. 
Ward  4.  William  P.  Abbott. 
Ward  5.  Henry  S.  Martin. 


Frank  H.  Starkweather,  City  Clerk. 


COUNCILMEN : 


Charles  Shrigley,  President. 


Ward  1. 


Ward  3. 


Francis  A.  Perry, 
Asa  Fairbanks, 
Samuel  O.  Gates. 


William  H.  Knowlton, 
Daniel  H.  Sawyer, 
William  P.  Chamberlain. 


Ward  2. 

Asa  Smith, 

Orren  S.  Gleason, 
Warren  W.  Mason. 


Ward  4. 
Charles  Shrigley, 
Josiah  M.  Woodward, 
Gardner  C.  Hill. 

Ward  5. 


Horace  Hamblet, 
Reuben  Hyland, 
Edward  C.  Thayer. 
Charles  A.  Gale,  Clerk. 


Francis  A.  Faulkner,  City  Solicitor. 
George  W.  Tilden,  City  Treasurer. 


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LIST  OF  CITY  OFFICIALS  — 1877. 


MAYOR : 

Edward  Farrar. 


ALDERMEN  : 

Ward  L.  George  W.  Ball. 
Ward  2.  Thomas  E.  Hatch. 
Ward  3.  Ira  F.  Prouty. 
Ward  4.  George  H.  Tilden. 
Ward  5.  Henry  S.  Martin. 


Lucius  C.  Doolittle,  City  Clerk. 


COUNCILMEN : 


Gardner  C. 

Ward  1. 

Benjamin  D.  Hutchins, 
James  S.  Taft, 

Luther  H.  Starkey. 

Ward  2. 

Orren  S.  Gleason, 

Warren  W.  Mason, 

Orlen  D.  Pratt. 


ill,  President. 

Ward  3. 

William  P.  Chamberlain, 
Jason  French, 

Harvey  Phillips. 

Ward  4. 

Josiah  M.  Woodward, 
Gardner  C.  Hill, 

Joseph  Wilson. 

d 5. 


Edward  C.  Thayer, 
Fred  E.  Robinson, 
George  F.  Sanborn, 
Charles  A.  Gale,  Clerk 


Silas  Hardy,  City  Solicitor. 
Henry  0.  Coolidge,  City  Treasurer. 


CITY  OFFICIALS. 


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LIST  OF  CITY  OFFICIALS  — 1878. 


MAYOR : 

Reuben  Stewart. 


ALDERMEN  : 

Ward  1.  George  W.  Ball. 
Ward  2.  George  K.  Wright. 
Ward  3.  Ira  F.  Prouty. 
Ward  4.  George  H.  Tilden. 
Ward  5.  Edward  C.  Thayer. 


Lucius  C.  Doolittle,  City  Clerk. 


COUNCILMEN ! 


James  S.  Taft,  President. 

Ward  1. 


Ward  3. 


Benjamin  D.  Hutchins, 
James  S.  Taft, 

Daniel  R.  Cole. 


Jason  French, 
Harvey  Phillips, 
Charles  A.  Gale. 


Ward  2. 


Ward  4. 


Orlen  D.  Pratt, 
James  C.  Whittle, 
John  W.  Nye. 


Joseph  Wilson, 
Norris  G.  Gurnsey, 
Jehiel  Harlow. 

Ward  5. 


George  F.  Sanborn, 
Cheever  P.  Felch, 
Laton  Martin. 


Charles  H.  Whitney,  Clerk. 


Silas  Hardy,  City  Solicitor. 
Henry  0.  Coolidge,  City  Treasurer. 


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LIST  OF  CITY  OFFICIALS  — 1879. 


MAYOR : 

Reuben  Stewart. 


ALDERMEN. 

Ward  1.  Horatio  Kimball. 
Ward  2.  George  K.  Wright. 
Ward  3.  Jason  French. 
Ward  4.  Norris  G.  Gurnsey. 
Ward  5.  Luther  P.  Alden. 


Lucius  C.  Doolittle,  City  Clerk. 


COUNCILMEN : 

James  S.  Taft,  President. 

Ward  1. 

Franklin  J.  Ware, 


Fred  A.  Barker, 
Charles  F.  Wilson. 
Ward  2. 

James  C.  Whittle, 
John  W.  Nye, 
Caleb  Goodnow. 


Ward  3. 
Charles  A.  Gale, 
Clark  N.  Chandler, 
Albert  0.  Fiske. 

Ward  4. 

Jehiel  Harlow, 
Dexter  W.  Gilbert, 
Warren  O.  Willson. 


Ward  5. 


Cheever  P.  Felch, 

Laton  Martin, 

James  H.  Smith. 

Charles  H.  Whitney,  James  E.  Parmenter,  Clerks. 


John  T.  Abbott,  City  Solicitor. 
Henry  S.  Martin,  City  Treasurer. 


CITY  OFFICIALS. 


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LIST  OF  CITY  OFFICIALS -1880. 

MAYOR : 

Horatio  Kimball. 

ALDERMEN : 

Ward  1.  Charles  F.  Wilson. 
Ward  2.  Cyrus  Piper. 

Ward  3.  Jason  French. 

Ward  4.  Norris  G.  Gurnsey. 
Ward  5.  Edward  B.  Tarbell. 

Lucius  C.  Doolittle,  City  Clerk. 

COUNCILMEN : 

Dexter  W.  Gilbert,  President. 


Ward  1. 

Ward  3. 

Hiram  Blake, 
James  Spencer, 
Milton  M.  Parks. 
Ward  2. 

Jerry  P.  Wellman, 

Albert  0.  Fiske, 
George  W.  McDuffee, 
James  H.  Fisher. 
Ward  4. 

Dexter  W.  Gilbert, 

James  W.  Russell,  George  H.  Richards, 

Charles  W.  Buckminster.  Charles  W.  Shedd. 

Ward  5. 

James  H.  Smith, 

Sylvanus  A.  Morse, 

Henry  Couillard. 

James  E.  Parmenter,  Clerk. 


John  T.  Abbott,  City  Solicitor. 
Henry  S.  Martin,  City  Treasurer. 


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LIST,  OF  CITY  OFFICIALS— 1881. 


MAYOR  I 

Ira  W.  Russell. 


ALDERMEN. 

Ward  1.  Charles  F.  Wilson. 
Ward  2.  Cyrus  Piper. 

Ward  3.  George  W.  McDuffee. 
Ward  4.  Dexter  W.  Gilbert. 
Ward  5.  Luther  P.  Alden. 


Lucius  C.  Doolittle,  City  Clerk. 


COUNCILMEN. 

George  H.  Richards,  President. 

Ward  1.  Ward  3. 

Janies  Spencer,  James  H.  Fisher, 

Milton  M.  Parks,  Clark  N.  Chandler, 

Rufus  Freeman.  Austin  E.  Howard. 


Ward  5. 

Stephen  L.  Randall, 
DeLos  C.  Ball, 

Henry  S.  Couillard. 
James  E.  Parmenter,  Clerk. 


Ward  2. 


Ward  4. 


Jerry  P.  Wellman, 
James  W.  Russell, 
Henry  W.  Nims. 


George  H.  Richards, 
Charles  W.  Shedd, 
Zebina  K.  GraYes. 


John  T.  Abbott,  City  Solicitor. 
Royal  H.  Porter,  City  Treasurer. 


CITY  OFFICIALS. 


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LIST  OF  CITY  OFFICIALS- 1882. 


MAYOR : 

Ira  W.  Russell. 


ALDERMEN  : 

Ward  1.  Ralph  J.  Holt. 

Ward  2.  George  B.  Twitchell. 
Ward  3.  George  W.  McDuffee. 
Ward  4.  Dexter  W.  Gilbert. 
Ward  5.  Luther  P.  Alden. 


Lucius  C.  Doolittle,  City  Clerk. 


COUNCILMEN  : 

Stephen  L.  Randall,  President. 


Ward  1. 
Rufus  Freeman, 
Albert  W.  Sheldon, 
Edwin  M.  Bullard. 


Ward  3. 

Clark  N.  Chandler, 
Austin  E.  Howard, 
Charles  Bridgman. 


Ward  2. 


Ward  4. 


Henry  W.  Nims,  Zebina  K.  Graves, 

George  L.  Burdett,  Clement  J.  Woodward, 

Charles  L.  Johnson.  Charles  H.  Hersey. 

Ward  5. 

Stephen  L.  Randall, 

DeLos  C.  Ball, 

Henry  S.  Couillard. 

James  E.  Parmenter,  Clerk. 


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Lewis  W.  Holmes,  City  Solicitor. 
Royal  H.  Porter,  City  Treasurer. 


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LIST  OF  CITY  OFFICIALS -1883. 


MAYOR : 

Horatio  Kimball. 


ALDERMEN  I 

Ward  1.  Silas  Hardy. 


Ward  2. 

George  L.  Burdett. 

Ward  3. 

George  E.  Holbrook. 

Ward  4. 

Frederick  H.  Kingsbury. 

Ward  5. 

Reuben  Hyland. 

Lucius  C. 

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Doolittle,  City  Clerk. 

COUNCILMEN  I 

Charles  H.  Hersey,  President. 

Ward  1. 

Ward  3. 

James  Marsh, 

Austin  E.  Howard, 

Clark  F.  Rowell, 

Virgil  A.  Wright, 

Daniel  C.  Howard. 

Henry  N.  Stone. 

Ward  2. 

Ward  4. 

Walter  W.  Glazier, 

Clement  J.  Woodward 

Asa  M.  Holt, 

Charles  H.  Hersey, 

Franklin  H.  Fay. 

Charles  Wright. 

Ward  5. 

Leonard  Wright, 
Marcus  Ellis, 

Fred  A.  Barker. 

James  E.  Parmenter,  Clerk. 


John  T.  Abbott,  City  Solicitor. 
Joseph  R.  Beal,  City  Treasurer. 


CITY  OFFICIALS. 


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LIST  OF  CITY  OFFICIALS  — 1884. 


MAYOR : 

Horatio  Kimball. 


ALDERMEN : 


Ward  1. 

Daniel  C.  Howard. 

Ward  2. 

George  L.  Burdett. 

Ward  3. 

Henry  N.  Stone. 

Ward  4. 

Frederick  H.  Kingsbury. 

Ward  5. 

Reuben  Hyland. 

Lucius  C. 

Doolittle,  City  Clerk. 

COUNCILMEN  I 

Virgil  A. 

Wright,  President. 

Ward  1. 

Ward  3. 

Martin  V.  B.  Clark, 

Henry  Giffin, 

Charles  S.  Coburn, 

Albert  A.  Woodward. 

Harrison  R.  Ward. 

Virgil  A.  Wright. 

Ward  2. 

Ward  4. 

William  E.  Burdett, 

Charles  Wright, 

Franklin  H.  Fay, 

Abel  E.  Johnson, 

John  Gould. 

Charles  Abbott,  2d. 

Ward  5. 

Fred  A.  Barker, 
William  H.  Elliot, 
Parker  C.  Butler. 
James  E.  Parmenter,  Clerk. 


John  T.  Abbott,  City  Solicitor. 
Joseph  R.  Beal,  City  Treasurer. 


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LIST  OF  CITY  OFFICIALS  — 1885. 


MAYOR  I 

Alfred  T.  Batchelder. 


ALDERMEN  : 

Ward  1.  Daniel  C.  Howard. 
Ward  2.  Franklin  H.  Fay. 
Ward  3.  Solomon  F.  Merrill. 
Ward  4.  Caleb  T.  Buffum. 
Ward  5.  DeLos  C.  Ball. 


Samuel  Nims,  City  Clerk. 


COUNCILMEN  : 

Charles  S.  Coburn,  President. 

Ward  1.  Ward  3. 


Charles  S.  Coburn, 
Martin  V.  B.  Clark, 
Harrison  R.  Ward. 

Ward  2. 

John  Gould, 
Sylvester  Spaulding, 
Charles  R.  Nims,* 
George  K.  Wright. f 


Albert  A.  Woodward, 
Henry  Giffin, 

Charles  Wright,  2d. 
Ward  4. 

Joshua  D.  Stevens, 
Samuel  A.  Gerould,  Jr. 
Henry  M.  Nims. 


Ward  5. 


Parker  C.  Butler, 
Henry  O.  Spaulding, 
Lester  K.  Stiles. 

James  E.  Parmenter,  Clerk. 


Charles  H.  Hersey,  City  Auditor. 
John  T.  Abbott,  City  Solicitor. 
Henry  0.  Coolidge,  City  Treasurer. 


* Deceased  May  3,  1885. 
f Elected  June  27,  1885,  to  fill  vacancy. 


CITY  OFFICIALS. 


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LIST  OF  CITY  OFFICIALS  — 1886. 


Alfred  T.  Batchelder. 


ALDERMEN  I 

Ward  1.  Edward  Gustine. 
Ward  2.  Franklin  H.  Fay. 
Ward  3.  Solomon  F.  Merrill. 
Ward  4.  Caleb  T.  Buffum. 
Ward  5.  DeLos  C.  Ball. 


Samuel  Nims,*  Milton  Blake, f City  Clerk. 


Edwin  M.  Bullard,  President. 


Ward  5. 

Parker  C.  Butler, 
Henry  O.  Spaulding, 
Lester  K.  Stiles. 

James  E.  Parmenter,  Clerk. 


Charles  H.  Hersey,  City  Auditor. 
John  T.  Abbott,  City  Solicitor. 
Henry  0.  Coolidge,  City  Treasurer. 


mayor : 


COUNCILMEN  : 


Ward  1. 

Edwin  M.  Bullard, 
Dauphin  W.  Wilson, 
Azro  B.  Skinner. 

Ward  2. 

John  Gould, 
Ephraim  Kendall, 
Robert  B.  Munsell. 


Ward  3. 

Charles  Wright,  2d, 
George  E.  Whitney, 
Albert  W.  Green. 

Ward  4. 

Joshua  D.  Stevens, 
Samuel  A.  Gerould,Jr., 
Henry  M.  Nims. 


* Deceased  Aug.  18,  1886. 
f Elected  Sept.  2,  1886. 


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LIST  OF  CITY  OFFICIALS— 1887. 


MAYOR : 

Asa  Smith. 


ALDERMEN : 

Ward  1.  Edward  Gustine. 
Ward  2.  Robert  B.  Munsell. 
Ward  3.  Charles  Wright,  2d. 
Ward  4.  Francis  C.  Faulkner. 
Ward  5.  John  Driscoll. 


Milton  Blake,  City  Clerk. 

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# COUNCILMEN : 


Edwin  M.  Bullard.  President. 


Ward  1. 

Edwin  M.  Bullard, 
Dauphin  W.  Wilson, 
Azro  B.  Skinner. 
Ward  2. 


Ward  3. 

George  E.  Whitney, 
Albert  W.  Green, 
Addis  E.  Bennett. 
Ward  4. 


Ephraim  Kendall, 
Frank  O.  Wright, 
Nelson  R.  Towne. 


Ward  5. 


Frederic  A.  Faulkner, 
Calvin  W.  Far  well, 
Jonas  F.  Whitcomb. 


Andrew  J.  Williams, 
Albert  H.  Hamblet, 
Garrett  J.  Landers. 
James  E.  Parmenter,  Clerk. 


Charles  H.  Hersey,  City  Auditor. 
John  T.  Abbott,  City  Solicitor. 
Henry  S.  Martin,  City  Treasurer. 


CITY  OFFICIALS. 


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LIST  OF  CITY  OFFICIALS  — 1888. 


MAYOR : 

Asa  Smith. 


ALDERMEN  I 

Ward  1.  James  S.  Taft. 

Ward  2.  Robert  B.  Munsell. 
Ward  3.  Charles  Wright,  2d. 
Ward  4.  Francis  C.  Faulkner. 
Ward  5.  Daniel  C.  Howard. 


Milton  Blake,  City  Clerk. 


COUNCILMEN : 


George  E.  Whitney,  President. 


Ward  1. 


Ward  3. 


Freeman  A.  White 
John  M.  Farnum, 
Charles  S.  Fisher. 


George  E.  Whitney, 
Addis  E.  Bennett, 
Fred  W.  Chase. 


Ward  2. 

Frank  O.  Wright, 
Nelson  R.  Towne, 
George  0.  Ward  well. 


Ward  4. 

Frederic  A.  Faulkner, 
Calvin  W.  Farwell, 
Jonas  F.  Whitcomb. 

Ward  5. 


Frederic  L.  Pitcher, 
Stephen  L.  Randall, 
Sylvanus  A.  Morse. 
James  E.  Parmenter,  Clerk. 


Charles  H.  Hersey,  City  Auditor. 

Daniel  K.  Healy,*  Don  H.  Woodward,  City  Solicitor. 
Henry  S.  Martin,  City  Treasurer. 


Resigned. 


96 


CITY  OF  KEENE. 


LIST  OF  CITY  OFFICIALS  — 1889. 


MAYOR  I 

Herbert  B.  Viall. 


ALDERMEN : 

Ward  1.  James  S.  Taft. 

Ward  2.  Eugene  W.  Greenwood. 
Ward  3.  Fred  W.  Chase.  ' 
Ward  4.  Frederic  A.  Faulkner. 
Ward  5.  Daniel  C.  Howard. 


Jerry  P.  Wellman,  City  Clerk. 


COUNCILMEN : 

Gardner  C.  Hill,  President. 

Ward  1.  Ward  3. 

Charles  S.  Fisher,  Frank  M.  Davis, 

Freeman  A.  White,  Frank  H.  Wright, 

James  B.  Kellogg.  Herbert  O.  Ward  well. 

Ward  2.  Ward  4. 

George  O.  Wardwell,  Gardner  C.  Hill, 

Liberty  W.  Foskett,  Frank  W.  Nims, 

Charles  W.  Morse.  Frank  H.  Whitcomb. 

Ward  5. 

Charles  P.  Pitcher, 

Andrew  J.  Williams, 

James  M.  Gowdey. 

James  E.  Parmenter,  Clerk. 


Charles  H.  Hersey,  City- Auditor. 
Don  H.  Woodward,  City  Solicitor. 
Royal  H.  Porter,  City  Treasurer. 


/ 


CITY  OFFICIALS. 


97 


LIST  OF  CITY  OFFICIALS  — 1890. 


MAYOR  I 

Herbert  B.  Vi  all. 


ALDERMEN  : 


Ward  1. 
Ward  2. 
Ward  3. 
Ward  4. 
Ward  5. 


Oscar  J.  Howard. 
Eugene  W.  Greenwood. 
Frank  G.  Dort. 

Frederic  A.  Faulkner. 
Garrett  J.  Landers. 


Jerry  P.  Wellman,  City  Clerk. 

i 


COUNCILMEN  : 


Frank  H.  Whitcomb,  President. 

Ward  1.  Ward  3. 


James  B.  Kellogg, 
Fred  H.  Willson, 
Herbert  A.  Davis. 
Ward  2. 


Stephen  W.  Williams, 
Elbridge  A.  Shaw, 
Herbert  W.  Keyes. 
Ward  4. 


Liberty  W.  Foskett,  Frank  W.  Nims, 

Charles  W.  Morse,  Frank  H.  Whitcomb, 

Louis  M.  Richards.  Gale  C.  Shedd. 

Ward  5. 

Charier  P.  Pitcher, 

James  M.  Gowdey, 

George  W.  Zimmerman. 

James  E.  Parmenter,  Clerk. 


13 


Charles  H.  Hersev,  City  Auditor. 
Don  H.  Woodward,  City  Solicitor. 
Royal  H.  Porter,  City  Treasurer. 


98 


CITY  OF  KEENE. 


LIST  OF  CITY  OFFICIALS -1891. 


MAYOR : 

Horatio  Kimball. 


ALDERMEN  : 

Ward  1.  Oscar  J.  Howard. 
Ward  2.  Liberty  W.  Foskett. 
Ward  3.  Charles  Wright,  2d. 
Ward  4.  Frank  H.  Whitcomb. 
Ward  5.  Garrett  J.  Landers. 

Jerry  P.  Wellman,  City  Clerk. 


Gale  C.  Shedd,  President. 


Ward  5. 

George  W.  Zimmerman, 
Alexander  C.  Eustace, 
William  H.  Elliot. 

James  E.  Parmenter,  Clerk. 


\ 


COUNCILMEN  : 


Ward  1. 

Fred  H.  Willson, 
Herbert  A.  Davis, 
Christopher  J.  George. 
Ward  2, 

Charles  W.  Morse, 
George  A.  Nims, 
Warren  B.  Fitch. 


Gale  C.  Shedd, 
Joseph  Chase, 
Fred  E.  Howe. 


Ward  3. 

Frank  M.  Davis, 
Herbert  0.  Ward  well, 
William  J.  Sewall. 
Ward  4. 


Charles  H.  Hersey,  City  Auditor. 
Don  H.  Woodward,  City  Solicitor. 
Joseph  R.  Beal,  City  Treasurer. 


CITY  OFFICIALS. 


99 


LIST  OF  CITY  OFFICIALS— 1892. 


MAYOR ! 

Frederic  A.  Faulkner. 


ALDERMEN : 


Ward  1.  Janies  H.  Wilson.  * Francis  A.  Perry.f 
Ward  2.  Liberty  W.  Foskett. 

Ward  3.  Frank  M.  Davis. 

Ward  4.  Frank  H.  Whitcomb. 

Ward  5.  William  H.  Elliot. 


Jerry  P.  Wellman,  City  Clerk. 


COUNCILMEN  : 


Fred  E.  Howe,  President. 

Ward  1. 


Ward  3. 


Christopher  J.  George, 
James  H.  Spencer, 
Joseph  C.  Reed. 


William  J.  Sew  all, 
William  C.  Hall, 
Oscar  H.  Fay. 


Ward  2. 

George  A.  Nims, 

Warren  B.  Fitch, 

Edwin  M.  White. 

Ward  5. 


Ward  4. 
Joseph  Chase, 
Fred  E.  Howe, 
Frank  H.  Weeks. 


William  E.  Maloney, 
John  J.  Colony, 

Cornelius  J.  Donovan. 
Herbert  0.  Ward  well,  Clerk. 


Charles  H.  Hersey,  City  Auditor. 
Don  H.  Woodward,  City  Solicitor. 
Joseph  R.  Beal,  City  Treasurer. 


* Deceased  April  22,  1892. 
f Elected  May  28.  1892. 


100 


CITY  OF  KEENE. 


LIST  OF  CITY  OFFICIALS— 1893. 


MAYOR : 

Frederic  A.  Faulkner. 


ALDERMEN  I 


Ward  1. 
Ward  2. 
Ward  3. 
Ward  4. 
Ward  5. 


Francis  A.  Perry. 
George  A.  Nims. 
Frank  M.  Davis. 
Fred  E.  Howe. 
William  E.  Maloney. 


Jerry  P.  Wellman,  City  Clerk. 


COUNCILMEN  I 


William  C.  Hall,  President. 


Ward  1. 
Joseph  C.  Reed, 

Fred  A.  Bowen, 
Charles  W.  Wyman. 
Ward  2. 

Edwin  M.  White, 
Edwin  O.  Upham, 
Charles  H.  Fairfield.* 


Ward  3. 

William  C.  Hall, 
Oscar  H.  Fay, 
Henry  E.  Lake. 
Ward  4. 

Frank  H.  Weeks, 
Stephen  K.  Stone, 
Sidney  C.  Ellis. 

5. 


Cornelius  J.  Donovan. 
Svlvanus  A.  Morse. 
William  Q.  Shea. 

Herbert  O.  Ward  well,  Clerk. 


Charles  H.  Hersey,  City  Auditor. 
Don  H.  Woodward,  City  Solicitor. 
Jerome  E.  Wright,  City  Treasurer. 


Resignation  accepted  May  18. 


CITY  OFFICIALS. 


101 


LIST  OF  CITY  OFFICIALS  — 1894. 


MAYOR : 

Frederic  A.  Faulkner. 


ALDERMEN  : 


Ward  1. 
Ward  2. 
Ward  3. 
Ward  4. 
Ward  5. 


Lewis  W.  Holmes. 
George  A.  Nims. 
Albert  W.  Green. 
Fred  E.  Howe. 
William  E.  Maloney. 


Jerry  P.  Wellman,  City  Clerk. 


COUNCILMEN  I 

Edwin  O.  Upliam,*  Edwin  M.  White, f President. 
Ward  1.  Ward  3. 


Charles  W.  Wyman, 

Fred  A.  Bowen, 

Frank  K.  Jewett. 

Ward  2. 

Edwin  M.  White, 

Edwin  O.  Upham, 

Charles  H.  Fairfield. 

Ward  5. 


Henry  E.  Lake, 
Frank  F.  Stearns, 
Charles  A.  Nichols 
Ward  4. 
Sidney  C.  Ellis, 
Leston  E.  Mason, 
Walter  R.  Porter. 


James  H.  Smith, 
Charles  Sherman, 
James  J.  White. 
Herbert  O.  Ward  well,  Clerk. 


Charles  H.  Hersey,  City  Auditor. 
John  T.  Abbott,  City  Solicitor. 
Jerome  E.  Wright,  City  Treasurer. 

* Resignation  accepted  September  6. 
f Elected  President  Common  Council  September  6. 


102 


CITY  OF  KEENE. 


LIST  OF  CITY  OFFICIALS  — 1895. 


MAYOR : 

George  W.  McDuffee. 


ALDERMEN : 

Ward  1.  Christopher  J.  George. 
Ward  2.  George  E.  Poole. 

Ward  3.  Albert  W.  Green. 

Ward  4.  Sidney  C.  Ellis. 

Ward  5.  William  H.  Elliot. 


Jerry  P.  Wellman,  City  Clerk. 


COUNCILMEN : 


Leston  E.  Mason,  President. 


Ward  1. 

Frank  K.  Jewett, 
Edward  W.  Gustine, 
Milan  H.  Johnson. 
Ward  2. 


Ward  3. 

Frank  F.  Stearns, 
Charles  A.  Nichols, 
George  H.  Giffin. 
Ward  4. 


Flavel  Beal, 

Aaron  R.  Gleason, 
Charles  W.  Pierce. 


Leston  E.  Mason, 
Walter  R.  Porter, 
Wallace  L.  Mason 

Ward  5. 


Charles  Sherman, 
James  H.  Smith, 
Andrew  J.  Williams. 
H.  O.  War  dwell,  Clerk. 


Charles  H.  Hersey,  City  Auditor. 
John  T.  Abbott,  City  Solicitor. 
Arthur  L.  Wright,  City  Treasurer. 


CITY  OFFICIALS. 


103 


LIST  OF  CITY  OFFICIALS  — 1896. 


MAYOR  .' 

George  W.  McDuffee. 


ALDERMEN  .* 

Ward  1.  Christopher  J.  George. 
Ward  2.  George  E.  Poole. 

Ward  3.  Charles  A.  Nichols. 
Ward  4.  Sidney  C.  Ellis. 

Ward  5.  Garrett  J.  Landers. 


Jerry  P.  Wellman,  City  Clerk. 


COUNCILMEN  : 

Walter  R.  Porter,  President. 

Ward  1.  Ward  3. 

Herschel  J.  Fowler,  George  H.  Giffin, 

Edward  W.  Gustine,  Charles  H.  Mason, 

Milan  H.  Johnson.  George  A.  Sherman. 

Ward  2.  Ward  4. 

Flavel  Beal,  Walter  R.  Porter, 

Aaron  R.  Gleason,  Edward  A.  Kingsbury, 

Charles  W.  Pierce.  Robert  T.  Kingsbury. 

Ward  5. 

Andrew  J.  Williams, 

Charles  T.  Colony, 

Patrick  White. 

Herbert  0.  Ward  well,  Clerk. 


Charles  H.  Hersey,  City  Auditor. 
John  T.  Abbott,  City  Solicitor. 
Arthur  L.  Wright,  City  Treasurer. 


104 


CITY  OF  KEENE. 


LIST  OF  CITY  OFFICIALS  — 1897. 


MAYOR  I 

Francis  A.  Perry. 


ALDERMEN 

Ward  1.  Herschel  J.  Fowler. 
Ward  2.  Flavel  Beal. 

Ward  3.  George  H.  Eames. 
Ward  4.  Walter  R.  Porter. 
Ward  5.  Lest  on  E.  Mason. 


Jerry  P.  Wellman,  City  Clerk. 


COUNCILMEN  I 

Milan  H.  Johnson,  President. 


Ward  1. 

George  F.  Little, 
Warren  W.  Bissell, 
Milan  H.  Johnson. 


Ward  3. 

George  A.  Sherman, 
Osgood  W.  Upham, 
Robert  Cuthbert. 


Ward  2. 


Ward  4. 


Charles  W.  Pierce, 
Louis  A.  Nims, 
Austin  A.  Ellis. 


Edward  A.  Kingsbury, 
Robert  T.  Kingsbury, 
Fred  E.  Barrett. 

Ward  5. 


Cornelius  E.  Sullivan, 
Wilson  J.  Nims, 

Ezra  P.  Hardy. 

Herbert  0.  Ward  well,  Clerk. 


Charles  H.  Hersey,  City  Auditor. 
John  T.  Abbott,  City  Solicitor. 
Royal  H.  Porter,  City  Treasurer. 


CITY  OFFICIALS. 


105 


LIST  OF  CITY  OFFICIALS  — 1898. 


MAYOR : 

George  H.  Eames. 


ALDERMEN  .* 


Ward  1.  Herschel  J.  Fowler. 
Ward  2.  Flavel  Beal. 

Ward  3.  Henry  N.  Stone. 
Ward  4.  Walter  R.  Porter. 
Ward  5.  Wilson  J.  Nims. 


Jerry  P.  Wellman,*  Frank  H.  Whitcomb,!  City  Clerk. 


COUNCILMEN  : 


Robert  T.  Kingsbury,  President. 


Ward  1. 


Ward  3. 


George  F.  Little, 
Warren  W.  Bissell, 
George  M.  Reed. 

Ward  2. 
Louis  A.  Nims, 
Austin  A.  Ellis, 
Samuel  Patrick. 


Osgood  W.  Upham, 
George  F.  Stone, 
Charles  E.  Ward. 
Ward  4. 

Fred  E.  Barrett, 
Robert  T.  Kingsbury, 
Myron  C.  Ellis. 

Ward  5. 


Cornelius  E.  Sullivan, 
John  Driscoll, 

John  Deihl. 

Herbert  0.  Ward  well,  Clerk. 


Charles  H.  Hersey,  City  Auditor. 
John  T.  Abbott,  City  Solicitor. 
Royal  H.  Porter,  City  Treasurer. 

* Resigned  March  17,  1898. 
f Elected  March  17,  1898. 


14 


106 


CITY  OF  KEENE. 


LIST  OF  CITY  OFFICIALS  — 1899. 


MAYOR ! 

George  H.  Eames. 


ALDERMEN  : 


Ward  1. 
Ward  2. 
Ward  3. 
Ward  4. 
Ward  5. 


Frank  K.  Jewett. 
Austin  A.  Ellis. 
Albert  E.  Fish. 
Fred  E.  Barrett. 
William  T.  Glynn. 


Frank  H.  Whitcomb,  City  Clerk. 


COUNCILMEN  I 


Samuel  Patrick,  President. 

Ward  1.  Ward  3. 


George  M.  Reed, 

Orville  E.  Cain, 

James  E.  Marsh. 

Ward  2. 

Samuel  Patrick, 
Frederick  M.  Hamilton, 
Herbert  C.  Fairbanks. 


George  F.  Stone, 

Charles  E.  Ward, 
Winslow  F.  Harris. 

Ward  4. 

Myron  C.  Ellis, 

Jedediah  C.  Estabrook, 
Frederick  E.  Kingsbury. 


Ward  5. 

John  Driscoll, 

Walter  B.  Richardson, 
Ellery  M.  Blake. 

Herbert  O.  Ward  well,  Clerk. 


Charles  H.  Hersey.  City  Auditor. 
John  T.  Abbott,  City  Solicitor. 
Wallace  L.  Mason,  City  Treasurer. 


CITY  OFFICIALS. 


107 


LIST  OF  CITY  OFFICIALS  — 1900. 


MAYOR : 

Austin  A.  Ellis. 


ALDERMEN  : 


Ward  1. 
Ward  2. 

Ward  3. 
Ward  4. 
Ward  5. 


Frank  K.  Jewett. 

Samuel  Patrick,* 
Frederick  M.  Hamilton.! 
Edwin  O.  Upham. 

Fred  E.  Barrett. 

William  T.  Glynn. 


Frank  H.  Whitcomb,  City  Clerk. 


COUNCILMEN : 


Orville  E.  Cain,  President. 


Ward  1. 

George  M.  Reed, 

Orville  E.  Cain, 

James  E.  Marsh. 

Ward  2. 

Frederick  M.  Hamilton, 
Benjamin  F.  Sawyer, 

James  F.  Morse. 

Ward 


Ward  3. 
Samuel  Whitney, 
Robert  P.  Hayward, 
William  P.  Carleton. 
Ward  4. 

Jedediah  C.  Estabrook, 
William  H.  Woodward, 
Cadmon  D.  Robertson. 
5. 


John  Driscoll, 

Charles  Sherman, 
John  J.  Donovan. 
Herbert  O.  War  dwell,  Clerk. 


Charles  H.  Hersey,  City  Auditor. 

John  E.  Allen,  City  Solicitor. 
Wallace  L.  Mason,  City  Treasurer. 


* Resigned  Feb.  15,  1900. 
t Elected  Mar.  13,  1900. 


INDEX 


PAGE. 

Abatements  of  water  rates,  how  made 27 

Aldermen,  board  of,  rules  of  order 69-71 

Amendments  to  city  charter 9-13 

Animals  at  large 54-55 

Annual  meeting  of  councils  for  organization 7 

for  declaring  vote  for  mayor 65 

Assessors,  election  by  councils  authorized 12 

how  and  when  chosen 46 

salaries  of  and  when  payable 64 

Assistant  assessor,  how  and  when  elected 46 

compensation  allowed 64 

Auditor,  election  of 15 

shall  sit  weekly 15 

shall  examine  and  allow  claims 15,  16 

salary  of 64 

Billiard  saloons  shall  obtain  license 59 

restrictions  upon,  fines,  etc 59 

Bonds  of  city  officers  required 38,  59-60 

Burial  grounds.  See  cemeteries. 

joint  committee  on,  duties,  etc 36,  37,  38 

Burial  of  the  dead 45,  53,  54 

Cemeteries,  care  and  superintendence  of. 36 

superintendent  of,  election,  duties,  etc 37 

salary,  bond,  etc 64,  60 

funds  how  invested 38 

Check  lists,  how  corrected,  posted,  etc 9,  10 

City  charter,  with  amendments  to  1900 5-13 

City  clerk,  when  chosen 58 

general  duties  other  than  prescribed  by  statute 16-17 

salary,  bond,  etc 61,  60 

shall  report  all  receipts  on  account  of  city 18 

City  collector,  when  appointed 47 

duties  and  requirements  of 44-47 

salary,  bond,  etc 62,  60 

City  councils,  rules  of  order 69-79 


110 


INDEX. 


PAGE. 

City  hall,  how  rented,  etc 39,  61 

City  messenger,  when  elected 38 

duties  of 39,  61 

salary,  bond,  etc 62,  60 

City  marshal,  to  be  appointed 20 

duties  of 20,  23,  54,  55 

salary,  bond,  etc 62,  60 

City  officers,  salaries  of 61-65 

bonds  of, 59-60 

extra  services  of,  how  paid 65 

City  officials,  list  of,  for  1874 81 

list  of,  for  1875 82 

list  of,  for  1876 83 

list  of,  for  1877 84 

list  of,  for  1878 85 

list  of,  for  1879 86 

fist  of,  for  1880 87 

list  of,  for  1881 88 

list  of,  for  1882 89 

list  of,  for  1883 90 

list  of,  for  1884 91 

list  of,  for  1885 92 

list  of,  for  1886 93 

list  of,  for  1887 94 

list  of,  for  1888 95 

list  of,  for  1889 96 

list  of,  for  1890 97 

list  of,  for  1891 98 

list  of,  for  1892 99 

list  of,  for  1893 100 

list  of,  for  1894 101 

list  of,  for  1895 102 

list  of,  for  1896 103 

list  of,  for  1897 104 

list  of,  for  1898 105 

list  of,  for  1899 106 

list  of,  for  1900 107 

City  pasture,  care  of,  etc 25 

City  physician,  when  chosen 44 

duties  of. 44,  45 

salary  of 64 

City  solicitor,  when  chosen 43 

duties  of. 43,  44 

salary  of 44,  61,  62 

City  seal 65,  66 


INDEX. 


Ill 


PAGE. 

City  treasurer,  when  chosen 58 

salary,  bond,  etc 60,  62 

shall  pay  out  money,  how 17-20 

shall  give  receipts  in  all  cases 18 

shall  keep  and  make  up  accounts,  how . 20 

Claims,  committees  of,  aldermen 70 

Collector  of  taxes,  etc.  See  city  collector. 

Committees,  joint  standing  and  standing,  annually  appointed,  70,  75,  78 

special,  how  appointed v 70,  76 

Committees  or  officers  not  to  incur  debt 16 

Commissioners.  See  water  works,  sewers,  health  officers  and 
public  parks. 

Common  council,  rules  of  order 71-76 

clerk  of,  salary 62 

Constables,  bonds,  etc 60 

duties  of. 53 

Cruelty  to  animals 52,  53 

Dogs,  when  muzzled 56 

Engineers,  when  and  how  chosen 39 

shall  perform  duties  and  exercise  powers  of  firewards 40 

may  adopt  by-laws  and  regulations 40 

salaries  of 63 

Fence  viewers  to  be  chosen 58 

Finance,  joint  standing  committee  on 19 

duties  of. 20 

Fire  alarm,  superintendent  of,  how  chosen 41 

duties  of  superintendent 41,  42 

salary  of  superintendent 64 

Fire  department 39-43 

Fire  department,  engineers  of.  See  engineers. 

wages  of  members,  how  paid 40,  65 

pay-roll  blanks,  how  procured 40 

salary  of  officers  of  steamer  company 63 

Fire  precinct,  boundaries  of. 41 

regulations  in  regard  to  buildings  in 40,  41 

Firearms  and  explosives,  use  of  prohibited 60 

Habitual  truants 54 

Health  commissioners,  how  chosen 45 

duties  and  powers  of 45,  46 

salary  of 64 

Health  ordinance 45,  46 

Highways,  ordinances  relating  to 56,  49,  50,  57 

superintendent  of,  how  chosen 24 

duties  of  superintendent 24-26 

salary,  bond,  etc 62,  60 


112 


INDEX. 


PAGE. 

Joint  standing  committees.  See  committees. 

Joint  rules  of  order 76-79 

Library,  Keene  public,  conditions  of  acceptance  by  city 47,  48 

care  and  management  of 48,  49 

board  of  trustees  to  be  appointed 48 

powers  and  duties  of  trustees 48,  49 

Licenses,  for  shows 60,  61 

Liqupr  agent,  salary  of 64 

Lord’s  day,  observance  of 55 

Marshal.  See  city  marshal. 

Mayor,  vote  for,  annually  examined  and  declared 65 

authorized  to  draw  orders  in  certain  form 17 

, and  for  certaiji  specified  sums  and  purposes 17,  18 

salary  of. 61 

Measurers  of  wood,  how  chosen 58 

Moderators,  salaries  of. 63 

Money,  how  drawn  from  treasury 17 

Night  watch,  provisions  relating  to 22 

Numbering  of  buildings 50,  51,  52 

Ordinances,  how  engrossed  and  published 58,  78 

Overseer  of  the  poor,  election  provided  for 12 

when  and  how  chosen 46 

salary  of. 63 

Parks,  public,  superintendent  of,  how  chosen  and  duties 57 

salary  of. 64 

Plumbers,  examiners  of,  to  be  appointed 31 

to  give  notice  of  change,  when 31 

Plumbing,  inspector  of,  and  rules 31,  35 

ordinance  and  requirements  30-36 

permits  for 31 

notification 31 

materials 33,  35 

Police,  how  appointed 20,  21 

duties  of. 20,  22,  23,  54,  55 

report  of  services,  salaries,  etc 22,  62,  65 

Police  court  established 7 

justice,  salary  of. 63 

Poor,  overseer  of.  See  overseer. 

Printing,  committee  on,  etc 58 

Public  lights  and  lamps,  control  of. 26 

Regulations  for  house  drainage  and  sewer  connections 30-36 

Road  commissioners,  how  chosen 23 

duties 23,  24 

Rules  of  order,  city  councils * 69-79 

board  of  aldermen 69-71 


INDEX. 


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PAGE. 

Rules  of  order,  common  council  71-76 

joint  rules 76-79 

Salaries  of  city  officers 61-65 

Sealer  of  weights  and  measures  appointed 58 

Selectmen,  salaries  of. 63 

Sewers,  ordinance  relating  to,  rules,  etc 30-36 

commissioners  of 27,  28 

superintendent  of. 28,  29,  30 

connections,  permits  for,  how  obtained 31 

rules  for  drainage  and  connections 30-36 

Sexton,  to  be  appointed 59 

Snow,  protection  from,  on  buildings 56 

Streets.  See  highways. 

Superintendents.  See  proper  departments. 

Supervisors,  election  and  duties  of. 9-11 

salaries  to  be  fixed  by  aldermen 10 

Surveyors  of  lumber 58 

Taxes,  assessors  of. 12,  46,  64 

collector  of.  See  city  collector. 

Trees,  protection  of. 57 

Truant  officers  and  truants 54 

Wages,  assignment  of 65 

Ward  clerks,  salaries  of 63 

Water  works,  charter  provisions 7 

commissioners  to  be  elected 26 

powers  and  duties  of  commissioners 26-28 

may  make  repairs,  etc ' 27 

shall  establish  water  tariff 27 

shall  keep  certain  plans  and  records 28 

salary  of  commissioners 63 

superintendent  of,  how  chosen 28 

shall  have  care  and  supervision  of  work 29 

shall  make  lists  of  water  takers  and  rents 29 

salary,  bond,  etc.,  of  superintendent 64,  60 

Weighers,  to  be  chosen 58 


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